Hi Everyone,
I am currently working on an interview-based project called, MY FOOD, which I host on my blog, Tastes Like Home. The aim is to find out how we as Caribbean people identify ourselves by our food. Understandably, the answers are varied, and enlightening. Earlier in the week, I posted a link on Facebook from National Public Radio’s The Splendid Table in which Jennifer Ho, Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says, “Food plays a crucial role in how I identify as Chinese-Jamaican.” The following day I received an email from a reader asking, “What is a taste of home for you?”
It is funny, when you are so accustomed to being the one asking the questions, it always give you pause when the questions get directed at you. Some would think that I would have a ready answer, but I didn’t at the time, I needed to think. Over the years and at various stages of my life things have shifted, some have rearranged themselves and others get pushed aside, never cast away, but put in somewhere of less prominence. So my favourite foods have changed over time.
However, today I’d have to say that my taste of home is Rice and peas in three very different forms. Rice and peas cooked in the
