Recipe for Rice and Beans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21739087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mónica B Ocasio Vega (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 15-25 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-3262 • E-ISSN: 1533-8622 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/gfc.2022.22.2.15 |
| OpenAlex | W4285155651 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Rice and beans is considered a staple dish of the Caribbean. This article traces the principles of sabor—a multisensorial image—in the dish of rice and beans in Puerto Rico. I argue that Ana Lydia Vega’s story “Historia de Arroz con Habichuelas” and the recipes for “Arroz Blanco” (White Rice) and “Habichuelas Rosadas Secas” (Dried Pink Beans) in Carmen Aboy Valldejuli’s vernacular cookbook Cocina Criolla set forward a multisensorial image I call sabor and invite us to participate in a sensorial life in the Caribbean. In considering the privileged place of the dish in the Puerto Rican culinary imaginary, I propose an analysis of the writing of and about food made possible through savoring—as an exercise that brings us closer to the particularity of the culinary
Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Geography · Humanities · Literature · Recipe · Staple food · The Imaginary · Vernacular · White rice · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Psychology · Food Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |