The Family Table: In My Father’s Rice and Beans, a Celebration of Home, Family, and ‘A Love That Remains’

The Family Table: In My Father’s Rice and Beans, a Celebration of Home, Family, and ‘A Love That Remains’
The author's father's rice and beans, along with her favorite photo of her father. It includes a sweet inscription to his parents, sent with letters home in 1955. Courtesy of Cara Colon-McLauchlan
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Submitted by Cara Colon-McLauchlan, Raleigh, North Carolina

Rice and beans meant home to my dad. No matter the occasion, they were his way of celebrating the place he knew and longed for always.