A couple of years ago when we were visiting this beautiful part of the world, one of the locals described the native diet as mostly “rice and beans”– “and” he went on to say, “when we get tired of rice and beans we eat beans and rice.”
A well-rehearsed line no doubt but one that made us all laugh. It also got me thinking about the multitude of ways this humble and satisfying food gets reinvented to make it a little different each time….