Food and Cuisine

Arrive, Arts and Architecture, Music, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica

Kingston beat

Discover Kingston, Jamaica Get down with downtown Downtown Kingston is one of the neighbourhoods visitors are often urged to avoid. Yet...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Soup without borders

In Trinidad and Tobago, corn soup is not a dish you cook for yourself. When you make a big, steaming pot, you call your friends and family...

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Embark, Music, Reviews, Food and Cuisine

Caribbean Playlist (March/April 2016)

Spice Island — Eddie Bullen (Thunder Dome Sound) Smooth jazz is a music genre purists love to hate, but in the Caribbean it is...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica

Easter fare

Christianity — Roman Catholicism in particular — has played such a huge role in the history of the Caribbean that five centuries after...

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People

Pelau vs Pelau

Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Life is sweet

For most Caribbean people, honey is something you buy in the market or along a country road from a vendor who pitched up a little table in...

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine

Fowl play

There is no moon in the sky. Perfect conditions for candling. Come, I say to my long-suffering husband, you are taller than me. It’s...

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Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Jeremy Tilokee: raw passion

I have many Caribbean friends who used to vigorously resist the idea of raw seafood. “I eh eating dat!” But after some coaxing, and a...

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