Sip a serious scotch and watch him dab beef ribs and pork chops with his homemade sauce, serving them up along with rice, beans and collard greens to those with the late-night munchies.

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We ate rustic abgoosht lamb stew, scoped out Persian markets, learned to make baghali polo rice with fava beans and dill.

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Corn, sweet potato sprinkled with cinnamon, rice and beans, garlic, avocado, and codfish all get whipped into ice cream, as well as what seems like almost every available seasonal fruit, including quenepa, which only exists on the island.

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Meanwhile, Isabel Santiago, a 67-year-old widow and neighbor of Pedro Castro, called him a "sweet guy" who used to bring her rice and beans from the house where he lived with his mother across the street.

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These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.

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Welcoming his guest in formal clothes with a lantern, the farmer allows it to rest in a guest room before assisting it with a bath and offering a meal of rice, beans and fish.

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This being New Orleans, the occasion will be marked with adult beverages and plenty of food gumbo, red beans and rice, a big pot of crawfish.

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Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).

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