Sugar and spice
You know it’s Christmas in Trinidad when you start smelling fresh paint, hearing parang music on the radio and seeing shoppers crowd...
GI in the WI
Ever since I decided I might throw my lot in with the bikini-and-Spandex crew for Trinidad Carnival in 2008, I’ve been taking the gym and...
Cooking in cyberspace
If you’re a real foodie, your life tends to be dominated by things culinary. That means you’ll probably have lots and lots of...
Lewis Hamilton: the drive to win
It takes a precocious ten-year-old to walk up to one of motor racing’s leading figures and say that he wants to drive for his Formula One...
Caribbean herbal remedies
I chortled, yes, I chortled. It was a poor attempt to stifle a laugh as Lisa related how one of her favourite T-shirts was ruined when a...
No fish? No fuss
For Christians, the practice of eating fish on Fridays dates back to the earliest days of the church. And the forty days of Lent, the...
Bittersweet: remembering Mott Green
In the past, when friends visited Grenada, they brought back quaint little packets of nutmeg and spices with some cocoa balls. We’d...
Rum, sweet Caribbean rum
And the wise man said, “Stick to rum from the Caribbean and Latin America.” I should have had that advice a few years ago, when, on a...
