Old recipes can be like french fries and potato chips. One leads to another, then another and then another, and so on. Until you look up and find yourself in the bottom of a rabbit hole surrounded by ...

Enough already with the beignets! Eat some calas. In bowl, combine rice, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and mix well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Heat vegetable oil for ...

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Gisele Perez is a caterer (Small Pleasures Catering) and food blogger in LA. Her hometown is New Orleans where her grandmother made calas, like beignets, but made with rice. Her recipe is here. Evan ...

calas (African rice fritters) :A Baker’s Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes Fro America’s Rich Immigrant Heritage,” by Greg Patent; Wiley; $34.95 Kelly Gorham Makes about 36 fritters This ...

The beignet has a lesser-known cousin, the cala, with a fascinating and unique history. Beignets are one of New Orleans’ signature sweet treats. But this powdered-sugar-dusted-delicacy has a ...

Loretta Harrison is no stranger to Jazz Fest, and neither are calas. This year, though, both have a new slot in the food line up as the fest rolls on. Harrison's Marigny-based business Loretta’s ...