Food and Cuisine

Culture, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

Fishcakes, pork belly, and macafouchette

Credit crunch, credit crisis, recession or whatever you want to call it, everybody’s been tightening their purse strings over the last 18...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

The recipe for success

One of the joys of being a good cook is that you don’t often have to rely on recipes. Not many of my West Indian friends who cook well...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

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...

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