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Photograph courtesy Being Sustainable

Being green

Every plastic milk bottle can now aspire to great things, thanks to Dr Auliana Poon. She’s the creator of “Being Sustainable”, a line of clean, up-market outdoor furniture – which ...

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After: a traditional meal of rice, curhee, channa and aloo, pumpkin, massala mango anchar, fried tomato, and vegetable salad. Photograph courtesy Kumar Mahabir

Aloo, bhaji, curry

There was a time when no self-respecting Trinidadian housewife would be caught dead using a recipe book. Following a written recipe was practically an admission of a lack of culinary ...

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The table that won `best display` at the Blue Food festival, showing pastries, cakes, cookies and a liqueur. Photograph by Oswin Browne

Out of the blue

Tobago’s Blue Food Festival Dasheen ain’t caviar. A starchy tuber or root crop from a food group so basic it is called “ground provision” in the West Indies, dasheen forms ...

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Illustration by James Hackett

Driven to distraction

My first Caribbean car, a second-generation Toyota Cressida, celebrates its 25th birthday this year. I’m still not sure if that’s grounds for celebration or consternation. Betsy, as she came to ...

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