“We ate arroz con ... the gandules are super abundant. It’s gandules season.” “They’re very easy to grow,” Zuluaga notes. “When I was a kid, we had a tree in our backyard in Florida ...

Some of the top sellers at the restaurant are rice and peas (arroz con gandules), red beans (habichuelas ... Crespo, who is from Chicago and also lived in Florida, has family all over Puerto ...

Pop in the gandules, or pigeon peas, add the arroz, the rice, cover, and cook on low heat for about an hour. And voila!, as they say in Spanish: arroz con gandules. Jose Jiminian cooked up a batch of ...

From birria on the Mexican plate to arroz con gandules for Puerto Rican parties ... a Cuban Puerto Rican disability educator, actor, and Florida native, remembers her wela (grandmother) Teresa ...

If food were a language and every culinary creation from around the world had an identical linguistic counterpart, "arroz con gandules" in a Puerto Rican household would be one of the dishes that ...

El Cilantrillo Restaurant specializes in Puerto Rican cuisines such as mofongo (smashed, garlicky, green plantains), pernil (roasted pork), arroz con gandules ... and 1301 Florida Mall Avenue.