Caribbean Datebook (March/April 2015)
New Orleans See the art of mas It’s no longer a controversial idea that the Caribbean’s many masquerade traditions are expressions of...
Market day
San Antonio Green Market Santa Cruz, Trinidad In the lush valley north-east of Port of Spain, organic farmers and artisanal food producers...
Brown gold: Trinidad’s local cocoa renaissance
In the past five years or so, while most of us were looking the other way, a quiet revolution began in Trinidad and Tobago. In kitchens and...
Grenada’s brown gold: organic cocoa
Grenada is known as “the Spice Isle”, but the island’s artisan organic chocolate has won awards – and fans – among lovers of the...
The Rhodes more travelled: Gary Rhodes
Caribbean eyes are smiling at another conquest of the British. And this time it’s not in sport, but in the culinary arena. Just as the...
Grenada: Nutmeg, Cocoa, Bananas…and blood
How often does a small Caribbean island make headlines around the world? Probably the last time was 25 years ago, on October 25, 1983, when...
Green goodies from Guyana
Did you know that cocoa is twice as rich in antioxidants as a glass of red wine, up to three times richer than a cup of green tea and up to...
Caribbean chocolate affairs
Chocolate is love that you can eat. As a result, we have long thought exceedingly ill of it. But towards the end of the 1990s it seemed...
