Food and Cuisine

Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Barbados

Chef Hans Schweitzer

Hans Schweitzer’s five-by-seven-foot office in the main kitchen of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados harbours everything from a computer...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People

Caribbean Food: Flavours of a People

Ann-Marie Whittaker slips an apron over her red sleeveless dress and scrutinises a brightly-decorated table the way a painter does a daub...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Cyril Sammy: Caribbean Chef of the Year

It was Plantain Pie that made Cyril Sammy the 1992 Caribbean Chef of the Year. Each year, chefs in Caribbean hotels are invited to send in...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, People

Caribbean Christmas Recipes from Khalid Mohammed

Last July, the Caribbean’s best chefs and bartenders gathered in Miami for the Caribbean Hotel Associations’s “Taste of the...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Guyana

Betty Kissoon-Singh: Doctor Betty in the Kitchen

Betty Kissoon-Singh, a Guyanese doctor who had practised medicine for almost two decades in Canada, was far from amused when medical...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica

This Little Piggie Went to Pork-Pit

It’s five in the morning and it’ll be another hour before the first rays of the morning sun penetrate the tropical darkness...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Lifestyle, Barbados

Eat Your Heart Out in Barbados

Until the early sixties, Barbados was not exactly a gourmet’s Mecca. Restaurants were few and far between, and most hotels — there...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Kitchen (Spring 1994)

Fed up with canned and packet soups! Try a good Caribbean recipe. Soups are commonly based on local fruits and vegetables such as avocados,...

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