Tastes Like Home

Hi Everyone, Porky, meaty, sweet – that’s Lap Cheong (in Cantonese).

Hi Everyone, Lime + water + sugar = swank. It’s that simple that’s why we call it as we see it: lime water.

Hi Everyone, Antigua & Barbuda beat out front runners Italy, France and Germany to cop first place and the title of Best Design in the recently concluded prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in their nominated category!

Hi Everyone, Have you ever found yourself sitting down to a plate of food and saying, “You know what this (fill in the blank) needs?

Hi Everyone, Often we grow up following and maintaining traditions without knowing or fully understanding why we do so.

Hi Everyone, I have many cups in my cupboard, small and large, expensive and economical.

Hi Everyone, Happy Independence to brilliant, beautiful, bountiful Guyana! Five years ago, I wrote about an ‘Independence food dream’ I had – one in which there was a table with a veritable feast of the foods of my country.

Hi Everyone, There are 3 men in particular who read this column and comment every week.

Hi Everyone, Back in 2007, I shared with you, what The New York Times’ Mark Bittman (aka The Minimalist) and Jim Lahey served up bread-loving folks the world over, No-Knead Bread.

Hi Everyone, There is one particular vegetable that I buy every week when I go to the market – Okra – even when it is selling for BDS$6 (GUY$540) a pound.

Hi Everyone, I couldn’t possibly reveal the subject of this column in the headline for fear that you might not buy the paper.

Hi Everyone, I beg of you. Please do not get tired of me and my ramblings on hot peppers.

Hi Everyone,When Easter comes around many homes come alive with the fragrance of spices – in the cakes, buns, cookies and fruit breads that are the order of the day.

Hi Everyone, last week my broadcast students and I were discussing programming plans for the College’s radio station, for Holy Week – the week from Palm Sunday leading up to Easter Sunday.

Hi Everyone, Last week, within a 48-hour period, I heard some food related things that I thought I’d share with you.

Hi Everyone, You may recall, that is, if you have been reading me that long, a column that I wrote a few years ago about my obsession with plantains; particularly green plantains.

Hi Everyone, After declaring last week that I had not given up any food or beverage for Lent, and that I tend to be a weekday vegetarian and weekend meat-eater, I received several emails, asking for vegetarian meal ideas from persons who have given up meat for Lent.

Hi Everyone, friend: What food and drink have you given up for Lent?

Hi Everyone, Every West Indian familiar with Chinese cuisine, refuses to make any of their favourite Chinese dishes without a few sprinklings of Chinese Five-spice powder added to their food.

Hi Everyone, I once read that if a popover and a pancake had a baby it would be Dutch.