Food

Rice is at the Intersection of Poverty and Comfort

Jackie Summers

"Nita, put down that damn book and fix dinner.”

Without hearing the lyrical lilt of his thick Caribbean accent, it’s easy to miss the playful tone of this running joke between my grandparents. My grandpa Deighton Merrick emigrated from Barbados to the United States in the early 1920s. Like so many others, he passed through...