Tastes Like Home

Hi Everyone, If you haven’t yet, then I urge you to pick up a copy of Barbadian Austin Clarke’s food memoir, Pig Tails ‘n Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food.

Hi Everyone, ●    Do you like making bread? ●    Are you intimidated by the traditional process of  having to knead and proof the dough twice?

Hi Everyone, I love my rubber spatula. Lest one becomes jealous of the other, let me say that I love my rubber spatulas.

Hi Everyone, Let me start with a cliché – with apologies to all English teachers the world over – “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” 

Hi Everyone, When I originally came up with the concept of Tastes Like Home, it was because I was missing the foods from home – Guyana.

Hi Everyone, “This is a cultural thing, you know. I been buying from this one shop here for more than 40 years now.”

Hi Everyone, Mention Devilled Eggs (aka Stuffed Eggs) for the menu of a social gathering these days and some people roll their eyes.

Hi Everyone, have you ever noticed how great food tastes when it’s a dish you didn’t plan or don’t quite have the ingredients for it, or you just threw it together on the spur of the moment?

Hi Everyone, The salt war has come home. Last week, Canadian Professor of Nephrology, Euan Carlisle, while responding to a question about the possible cause of the large number of renal failure cases in Guyana (at the opening of The Doobay Renal Centre), said that a contributing factor might be that our diets are loaded with too much sodium.

Hi Everyone, “A lot of people don’t realize that there is a difference between bunjal and curry you know,” declared the winner of last year’s Duck Curry Competition put on by the Guyanese Association of Barbados (GABI). 

Hi Everyone, I have a confession to make. I’ve known about this choka for several months now but I’ve been reluctant to share it with you.

Hi Everyone, I think that anyone would be hard-pressed to find a Caribbean person who does not like fried ripe plantains.

Hi Everyone, There are many pork buns and pork sandwiches out there, each with its own legion of worshippers and adoring fans, but there is one that has stolen my heart, rendered me helpless and always desperate with longing – Momofuku’s Pork Buns.

Hi Everyone, I love peppers – of all varieties, shapes and heat level.

Hi Everyone, I receive a lot of emails from people crying out in frustration wondering why their once soft, fluffy, hot roti has gone dry or hard by the afternoon.

Hi Everyone, last August when I was in Guyana and on the hunt for Chinese food, pastries, etc, you know, a taste of home, everyone kept telling me that I must try the Yangzhou fried rice.

Hi Everyone, A good Fried Rice is a dish that many of us aspire to perfect.

Hi Everyone, bearing your soul. Letting down your guard. Inviting someone into an intimate space.

Hi Everyone, Green is the number one colour when it comes to food.

Hi Everyone, So I felt like eating pancakes. I spied the apples on the counter top and began to think about how I could incorporate the apples into the pancakes.