Rice Pudding Gets a Fried Twist for Dessert

Culinary inspiration shouldn’t only come from rosy taste memories. Take rice pudding. Depending on whom you ask, this humble dish of rice cooked in sweetened cream until soft and thick may recall a simple, satisfying dessert or a lumpy, sad gruel à la Oliver Twist. For one chef, the loathsome rice pudding of his childhood became an unlikely muse for a whimsical dessert arancini that channels the nostalgic...