Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Allyson Henessy ● Issue 26 (July/August 1997)
Veni Mangé: Recipes from Allyson Henessy
Allyson is a Trinidadian chef with “a real sweet hand”, and a local TV personality; her sister Roses is the one with the nose ring and...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
Ancestral Kitchen
Diners at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre are experiencing a sweet hand with a distinctly Caribbean touch. Recently...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 34 (November/December 1998)
Tropical Chocs
Only during the short, frenzied feeding days of Easter do we eat even more chocolate. At this time of year, even after the saturation...
By Anu Lakhan ● Issue 61 (May/June 2003)
Carnivorous And Proud Of It
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...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, Lifestyle
By Anu Lakhan ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
A Sweet, Sticky Story
The recipe called for pectin. The name sounded familiar. A kind of sugar? Pectin. Something made from fins? No. Pectin, I discovered, makes...
Culture, Arts, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica
By Anu Lakhan ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Cook it up
I left Trinidad early one January morning, thinking that Jamaica was the two things I most needed: it was warm, and it was 900 miles away...
By Simon Lee ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Meet me at the office
First-time visitors to the Caribbean may be unaware that the most important institution in the islands is neither the parliament nor the...