Arrive, Arts and Architecture, Music, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica
By Tanya Batson-Savage ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Kingston beat
Discover Kingston, Jamaica Get down with downtown Downtown Kingston is one of the neighbourhoods visitors are often urged to avoid. Yet...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago
By Suzanne Bhagan ● Issue 139 (May/June 2016)
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...
Embark, Music, Reviews, Food and Cuisine
By Nigel Campbell ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
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...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Easter fare
Christianity — Roman Catholicism in particular — has played such a huge role in the history of the Caribbean that five centuries after...
Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
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...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago
By Franka Philip ● Issue 136 (November/December 2015)
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...
Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine
By Sharon Millar ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
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...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago
By Franka Philip ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
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...