Last week a group of around 20 Home Econo-mics teachers from across the country gathered at the Carnegie School of Home Economics (CSHE) to receive instructions from an Ecuadorean woman named Paulino Valenzuela on the various ways in which breadfruit can become a greater part of the local culinary culture.
Valenzuela resides in Barbados, runs a business of her own there and reportedly has an interest in importing breadfruit into Barbados from Guyana.
The Breadfruit Work-shop was put together by the local office of the Food and Agriculture Organisa-tion (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture. It reminded of a time more than 30 years ago when Guyana’s flirtation with self-sufficiency and buying local gave rise to numerous such fora.
Penelope Harris, the Principal of the CSHE had her own reasons for being interested in last week’s Breadfruit
