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Meggie 101
by Attillah Springer
My name is Attillah, I’m 26, and I love to give meggies. Don’t look surprised. I’m not the only one. Meggie-mania is alive and well in Trinidad, and spreading across the Trini diaspora — and also infecting those unfortunate foreign souls who find themselves liming with...
Have her cake and eat it
by Attillah Springer
Everybody thinks their grandmother makes the best black cake. They are wrong, since I can say with all surety that my grandmother made the best black cake. I guess it’s an easy mistake to make, but I can assure you, my grandmother would have won any best black cake competition, hands down....
Celebrating ourselves
by Attillah Springer
“You going Carifesta?” Not to be left out of the excitement, the corn soup vendor on Independence Square is getting into the spirit of the festival to come. She gets a few non-committal shrugs from passers-by. Downtown Port of Spain on a humid Monday in June has that sticky Carnival...
Keeping it chic
by Attillah Springer
If design is vision, then Lesley Ann Noel is emerging as one of Trinidad’s top young visionaries. After seven years in Brazil, Noel returned to Trinidad in 1999 with a degree in industrial design and a diploma in furniture design. She started off making furniture, using traditional local...
Bishop’s girls don't cry
by Attillah Springer
At the end of the love affair, I did what was expected of me. I made a misery playlist for my iPod, and ate appropriately obscene amounts of dark chocolate. I was, for about a day, having what seemed to me to be a tabanca. Tabanca: that well known Trinbagonian lost-love syndrome that so often takes...