Drawing on her food memories of 30 years ago and some new ones as well, Deborah Barocas self-published a cookbook, Guyana’s Tasty Exotic Foods of Six Peoples, almost two years ago and she’s currently working on the second edition, which will be published by a publishing house in New York, USA where she’s based and is due for release in September.
Deborah, the first girl and second born in a family of seven siblings, says she has been cooking for over 30 years. In addition, she was raised among an extended family from different ethnic backgrounds, “which further exposed and enhanced my love of various foods and the preparations of them”.
Deborah, who left Guyana while in her teens, told The Scene in an online interview that while living in
