
March 10th, 2025 Everybody knows jambalaya. It’s famous throughout Louisiana and can now be found in restaurants around the country. I’ve even seen the name jambalaya pop up around the world (usually in a context that has nothing to the rice dish, but still interesting seeing that word in far-away places). Everybody loves jambalaya. It’s…

6 September, 2024 Now this one is a deep dive from Southern Malaysia. Kacang pool, which translates to “pool of beans”, is a Malaysian version of a middle eastern dish called ful medammas, which uses foul medammas (another name for fava beans) as the base ingredient. Now I know what you’re thinking. Foul medammas? Mmm,…