Cynthia Nelson

Salt to taste Hi Everyone, Recently, while I was conducting a private cooking class, my client said he was never sure when to add salt when he was cooking – at the beginning, in the middle or at the end.

Taste Like Home Hi Everyone, Long before the Prime Minister of Barbados announced in Parliament, a week and a half ago, the six-month amnesty for undocumented Caricom Nationals to have themselves regularized, there has been tension.

Hi Everyone, Twice each year I go through a phase where I find food unappealing.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Do you taste when you eat?

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Breakfast we can forego, mid-morning snack, tea and dinner we can miss or have something light, but not lunch.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I’ve never been one to back away from a challenge.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I love it when second, third or fourth generation Guyanese living abroad write and ask me questions about dishes and various foods that they heard of a long time ago, or that their parents or grandparents use to make.

Hi Everyone,  have you ever been to a restaurant, eaten a meal or a particular dish and then tried to replicate it at home?

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Gulab Jamoon – that’s what was giving me all the pain in the kitchen two weeks ago.

Part 1 – The Recipes Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Never before have I ever been so frustrated, confused and at times angry in the kitchen as I have been this past week.

Hi Everyone, One main ingredient, with very similar modes of preparation, creates two dishes that represent two different religious foods in Guyana.

Hi Everyone, A couple of months ago as I was in the kitchen finely chopping some onions and herbs in preparation for a dish, a friend of mine visiting looked at me with a mixture of alarm and exasperation and said, “Why don’t you just use the food processor?”

Hi Everyone,  I was 17, it was my first job and someone in the office innocently asked what each of us had for breakfast that morning.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I come before you with my head bowed for I have flirted, cheated and obsessed about things other than my self-confessed true love: curry.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, For almost two decades I have not touched or tasted a sweet and sour dish.

Hi Everyone, Raise your hand if like fried chicken. Raise both of your hands if you like homemade fried chicken.

Jam versus jelly versus marmalade Hi Everyone, “Would you please pass the jelly?”

Describing our cuisine Hi Everyone, What is your answer when someone asks you to describe our cuisine or asks you what type of cuisine we have?

A test of my patience Peeling and cooking  Katahar (breadnut) Hi Everyone, I do not shy away from hard work.

Eureka’s  green thumb … expanding our palates Hi Everyone, Very early on Saturday mornings just as the sun rises to embrace the day, there, at the Cheap Side Market, you’ll find Eureka Carver and Dazzle Blackman proudly standing behind their stall with an array of fresh herbs, some potted and some parcelled out for sale.