The hours of 2013 close in and 2014 looms large. We know what we've experienced in 2013 - the good, the bad, the indifference and ...

I need to get something off of my chest. Long before I started this blog, I engaged in many conversations about our food. Caribbean Food. ...

Happy 46th Guyana!

Ever since I was a child, I would always hear older folks talk about living by your word. They explained that for all one may achieve in lif...

Hi Everyone, I'm here. I was hoping to post yesterday but I've been too tired. This week has been particularly rough for me. I retur...

When I was young I never liked going to the market. Yet, my mom would send me to the market every week; for me it was a form of punishment. ...

I have a ridiculous obsession with tea infusers! Seriously. I am not kidding. The other day I had to literally tear myself away from picking...

One of the things that was at the heart of my feelings of inadequacy when growing up was the inability to make a cup of tea to suit my mothe...

Food manufacturers the world over, invest a lot of money in designing and creating labels for their food products. The reason is simple – to...

I made pizza for the first time several weeks ago and marvelled at how well it turned out... As I stepped back to admire my work, I must adm...

The government of Barbados recently issued a 6-month amnesty for all undocumented Caricom nationals (citizens of the Caribbean), to apply f...

Twice each year I go through a phase where I find food unappealing. I find myself not feeling hungry and even when I try to envision my favo...

I've had an exhilarating and exhausting year in the kitchen but always, the results have been rewarding and enlightening. I've found...

I absentmindedly flipped through the pages of the current issue of the Saveur magazine in my hands and stopped at page 60. When I’d finishe...

This week's column looks at the question: where is home and talks about living in 2 places. As I was writing, I recalled a question a fr...

This weekend I cooked hassar curry. As I ate my meal, I wondered about the fascination with the fish, after all, the most significant part o...

The subject of this post is the headline for this week's column , in which I discuss how other factors, apart from the food itself contr...

How did this name come about for sweet basil?

Can anyone tell me if the dough that is made for roti (regular paratha or oil roti as we say) is the same dough that is kneaded for dhal pur...

It's one thing to struggle to get things into a suitcase, another thing to pay overweight but downright frustrating when your baggage do...