A love letter to – Guyanese Cuisine

Ingredient variety cooking – Fried Green Plantains, Pounded with Eggs (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Love is in the air, and it is the perfect time to begin ‘A Love Letter’ series in this the 16th year of Tastes Like Home. This is going to be an appreciation series with notes of nostalgia, identity, food culture and discovery.

The first ‘Love Letter’ is to our most wonderful of cuisines – Guyanese Cuisine. You know, we can love and be in love all our lives, and think that that love is known and understood, however, it is often necessary and important to express and show that love. Ask anyone of us living away from the 83-thousand square miles what we miss most, and you will hear that it is the food, the land, the way of life, the people, the sights and sounds that make Guyana a very special place.