Hi Everyone,
When I first conceptualized this column, Tastes Like Home, I knew what I would be getting out of it and I knew what people living away from Guyana would be getting out of it. My biggest concern was and still is – what would the people living at home, in Guyana, get out of a column like this.
Tastes Like Home got started because I was seriously missing the food of home (Guyana) in Barbados and I found it therapeutic and comforting to recreate our many dishes. This practice offered me the opportunity to stay connected to home and a means with which to communicate my admiration and apperception, not just for the food, but the memories associated with them too. In many ways, I could immortalize loved ones who have passed while simultaneously creating new memories. That is what Tastes Like Home does for me and based on the many messages I get from Guyanese living abroad, that is what it does for them too.
Over the years, on my short visits to Guyana, I have been greeted and welcomed with great enthusiasm by many people who read and enjoy the column, in print, online and via social media. Their reaction to the column always leaves me humbled. Never, did I imagine that my scribbling about everyday food that I missed would resonate with the people who
