Tastes Like Home

Hi Everyone, “Sweet Hands means that a person is so talented in the kitchen that anything he or she makes… is like manna from the Gods.”

Hi Everyone, This cookie ain’t gonna crumble. This cookie ain’t hard.

Hi Everyone,   I had a craving for shrimp, and like most Guyanese, it takes no effort to convince me to make a curry.

Hi Everyone, Growing up, I’d always hear my mother say that she did not like crab curry because it was too much work, not to cook it – to eat it!

Hi Everyone, Last month, an article was published in Stabroek News (Friday, August 14) written by Guyana’s former Director of the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department, Marilyn Collins, titled – ‘Food Fortification & The Health of the Guyanese Population.’

Hi Everyone, The August holidays are over and it’s time to get back to ‘reality’.

Hi Everyone, At this time of the year, all around the markets, you can see trays, boxes, and baskets brimming with red, shiny, beautiful tomatoes.

Hi Everyone,  For many of us Coconut Ice is very much a childhood treat.

Hi Everyone,   For decades now, electrical devices have been conceptualized, designed and manufactured to make our lives easier in the kitchen.

Hi Everyone,  Like many people, when I travel overseas, I like to shop for electronic gadgets, fine jewellery, clothing and shoes.

Hi Everyone, This is the last in the 4-part series of weekend Bajan eats.

Hi Everyone, When you eat a fried pork chop, you can’t help feeling naughty.

Hi Everyone, This week we continue with another weekend favourite among Barbadians.

Hi Everyone, This week begins a 4-part series featuring a few weekend favourites among Barbadians (Bajans).

Hi Everyone, Whilst on a visit to Berbice last month, I went to Port Mourant Market and there I spotted a shave-ice vendor!

Hi Everyone, You know I like pepper right? Really hot pepper!

Hi Everyone, All right, brace yourself, today I am going to ask you to do something that may go against a practice you have been doing all your life, and one that you would have seen done by parents and grandparents long before you ever started cooking.

Hi Everyone,  Do you find that as you get older, that you repeat yourself?

Hi Everyone, I don’t think that I would be wrong if I said that we have had a week full of emotions.

Hi Everyone, While I have eaten various types of souse – pig’s feet, cow heel and cow face as well as chicken feet, green banana and breadfruit – I had never had channa souse until a couple of months ago, while on that trip to Trinidad that I bet you are tired of hearing of by now.