There are occasions, Abbe Odenwalder says, when somebody will chide her for making Jamaican patties, or whipping up a Mediterranean rice pilaf with currants and pomegranate seeds, or maybe a easy Vietnamese grilled hen. “I at all times resent it when somebody tells me, ‘Oh, you may’t prepare dinner that dish since you’re not Vietnamese,’” Odenwalder says. “You realize what? […]