Development of Caribbean cuisine

Puerto Rican Empanadas (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Hi Everyone, There is hope amidst the maddening preference for foreign and imported food. There is hope that some of our cooking traditions and dishes will not be altogether lost. A course – Development of Caribbean Cuisine – offered by the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, is making small but powerful strides to introduce students to local and regional ingredients, cooking traditions and by extension the varied multicultural cuisine of the Caribbean.

I was invited by the university to share with the students studying nutrition and dietetics,