Stabroek Weekend

Steamed Okra and Corn for a salad (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)
Steamed Okra and Corn for a salad (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

What’s Cooking: Steaming

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask.

Breakout poets and the advancement of Guyanese literature

For Me – The Back-Yard Play your Carnival, play your masque, Dance with your Country Club set, Hop, jump at your midnight fete; For these things I’ll never ask – Take them all and leave for me The back-yard scene at dusk: The haze of blue wood-smoke, Morning mist amid mango leaves And the nancy-story fantasies That the cries of kiskadees From long, long ago evoke.

LUCAS STOCK INDEX

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) declined 2.468 percent during the third period of trading in January 2018.

Looking at local flowers

When the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) introduced Horticulture as part of its Agriculture Science Syllabus some ten years ago, both students and teachers were at a loss as to where to access such information or who to turn to for help.

Anand strikes! Veteran chess player and Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, 48, studying the chess board intently as he demolished American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana (not in picture) in the third round of the Tata Steel Masters Tournament last week at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. The curious onlooker is World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway. Following his victory over Caruana, Anand joined Anish Giri for the lead in the Tournament which ends next Sunday. (Photo: Alina l’Ami)

Anand takes lead in Tata Steel Masters

India’s chess superstar Viswanathan Anand, Holland’s Anish Giri, Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and the US’s Wesley So are co-leaders in the exclusive Masters category of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament ongoing in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, after five rounds of the 13-game competition.

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