1.   Caribbean cooking makes extensive use of this spice, where it flavors soups, stews, meat and vegetable dishes, seafoods and desserts.

2.   Is it because fine Spanish cooking has never made its mark here?

3.   The cooking made the grain more susceptible to attack by the enzymes that convert starch into sugars.

4.   Yet proper cooking can make them crisp and delicious, a lot like soft-shell crab.