[aruanan]

That’s when I realized that I would never find the most important ingredient of them all, and that my four year-old boy was right.

You got that right. I loved Thomasa Guzman's arroz con pollo con gandules, but I loved best watching her bustle around the kitchen and steeping lemon leaf from the little tree in the window in hot water, listening to her commentaries on life and the family, hearing her exclaim, "Ai! Gregorio!" and laugh when I'd tell her about something fairly egregious that had happened while at work. Now that she's gone, arroz con pollo is just chicken with rice.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Now that she's gone, arroz con pollo is just chicken with rice."

It is, isn't it?