By Miranda La Rose
I was 11+ years, then a first-year student at St Joseph High School, Georgetown in 1970, when I learnt that pepperpot cooked with cassava cassareep as a main ingredient, was a Christmas morning breakfast staple in many households in the city and the coastland.
Coming from Santa Rosa, Moruca, Region One (Barima/Waini), when my classmates asked me about having pepperpot for breakfast on Christmas morning all I could think about was ‘ha’chikupero’ the hottest pepperpot made by our Lokono (Arawak) people in Santa Rosa. That was my first school term in the city. I wondered how having ha’chikupero was even possible for breakfast among city residents.
