The search for the perfect patty
One of the strangest but most filling meals I ever enjoyed was the Jamaican specialty of bread and patty – essentially, a Jamaican patty...
Aunty Pam: spicing up Seattle
Her tiny white board house and the sugar cane that surrounded it have vanished, along with the only way of life her Indian-born parents and...
Aloo, bhaji, curry
There was a time when no self-respecting Trinidadian housewife would be caught dead using a recipe book. Following a written recipe was...
Out of the blue
Tobago’s Blue Food Festival Dasheen ain’t caviar. A starchy tuber or root crop from a food group so basic it is called “ground...
Fresh-air, no frills food
Trinidad & Tobago: Roast or fry bake? “Where did souse come from,” asks Anu Lakhan, “and why won’t it go back?” Lakhan is the...
Perfect presents for foodie friends
It’s the time of the year when you have to think about buying gifts for those special people in your life, and, inevitably, one of them...