Moors and Christians

Spanish-Speakers From Valencia to Venezuela know that the Moors of the title are black beans, while white rice stands for their foes, the Christians. This is a picturesque image, but no more so than the name applied to the dish in some parts of Veracruz: casamiento (marriage). Other combinations of rice and legumes go back for centuries before Columbus in Arabic and African cooking. Probably moros y cristianos was a new version of some dish or dishes already known to the Afric