It’s not right. And it’s not nice. Y’all know about certain things and keep the information to yourselves. Me? I share with you. Why none of you sought to tell me that there is such a thing as tawah pone (cassava pone cooked on a tawah)?
I watched with interest, and then excitement, when I saw a few YouTubers in and outside of Guyana make flat pancake-like cassava pone that was gooey and soft when pulled apart. They ate it warm, making sounds of ummm, while proclaiming how nice the pone tasted. They ate and they shared with their family. The beaming faces said it all. After watching the videos I was hungry for pone and eager to try making it myself on a tawah.
My late Mother made the best pone I have ever eaten. Aunty Barbara’s pone was known among her friends and friends of her children. The recipe in my book (Tastes Like Home, My Caribbean Cookbook) is my mom’s. She grated the cassava and coconut for the pone the day I baked it. There was naked impatience in the house that day as everyone waited for me to plate and photograph the pone before they could devour it.