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Carnivorous And Proud Of It
by Anu Lakhan
I know too many vegetarians. Even in the Caribbean, where meat has never gone out of fashion, I'd begun to feel a bit vulnerable. For me, meat isn't one of the four basic food groups; it is the point of the meal. Everything else - sauces, salads, things made with flour - is garnish. And I, for one...
Cooking from the heart
by Anu Lakhan
My mother used to tell me a story about a young woman whose chief domestic duty was cooking for her innumerable brothers. As is often the case with fictitious young men, these worked diligently at a variety of trades vaguely connected with agriculture, and were deeply devoted to their sister....
Edwidge Danticat
by Anu Lakhan
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, ISBN 1400-041-147, 256 pp)   Edwidge Danticat’s preoccupation with the woes of Haiti and its diaspora are unsurprising. No one is supposed to be easy about a country that mortgaged its future for its freedom (150 million francs in...
Defining the boundary
by Anu Lakhan
Anu Lakhan on A Nation Imagined, by Hilary McD. Beckles; The West Indies in India: Jeffrey Stollmeyer’s Diary, 1948–1949; and The Glory Days: 25 Great West Indian Cricketers, by Tony King and Peter Laurie   A Nation Imagined: First West Indies Test Team — The 1928 Tour by...