Food and Cuisine

Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Butter must come

In primary school, random visits from a government goodwill service inflicted milk and exactly three vanilla biscuits on unwitting...

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Literature, Food and Cuisine

Caribbean Cookup – November/December 2005

DUCK FOR SALE. Always these three words, on a hand-painted sign on a fence as you drive through any area in Trinidad where the backyards...

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Engage, Culture, Food and Cuisine, Caribbean Diaspora

Have her cake and eat it | Classic | Last word

Everybody thinks their grandmother makes the best black cake. They are wrong, since I can say with all surety that my grandmother made the...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Guyana

Hot hot pot

Consider casareep, the cassava-based Guyanese flavouring that looks like an oil spill and smells like burned sugar. Casareep itself is not...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

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...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

Her innard self

This is no mean adventure. When I say we’re getting into the blood and guts of things, I’m not speaking metaphorically. This is...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine

If it feels good, eat it

No pleasure is intrinsically bad: but the effective causes of some pleasures bring with them a great many perturbations of pleasure.   ...

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Culture, Literature, Food and Cuisine

A Christmas log

The dread I feel at Christmas is entirely owing to the gift situation. A fairly traditional Hindu upbringing has failed to instil a healthy...

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