Using Fermented Sauce for Jerk Chicken with Rice and Peas. The trend for fermented foods is growing. A process which uses bacteria and yeast to break down sugars in food and sometimes enhance food preservation you may unwittingly have been enjoying foods which are fermented all your life. Bread of all sorts but particularly sourdough, […]
Park’s Edge Bar and Kitchen – Excellence in Herne Hill
A Classy Kitchen and Bar near Brockwell Park. As you may guess, the name of the venue indicates where it’s located. Yes, Park’s Edge Bar and Kitchen faces onto the lovely Brockwell Park. This is an area of London with which I’m very familiar. My father was born and grew up on a few hundred […]
Trinidadian Pop-Rum Shop – Old Spitalfields Market
Welcome Limin’ Rum Shop and Island Food Restaurant Old Spitalfields Market is set to welcome Limin’, a 10-week Trinidadian pop-rum shop and island food restaurant, in association with House of Angostura®. We went along to the opening of an exciting new Trinidadian restaurant which is joining the London food scene, in all its glory, from 26th […]
Sugar Dumplin – Review
A Caribbean Food Fest at Sugar Dumplin: “Hey Fattie Bum Bum, Little Sugar Dumplin”- I’m old enough to remember Carl Malcolm’s 1975 hit. It was a blast of Caribbean sunshine from the past so with the winter weather kicking in it was great to be invited by Caribbean restaurant group Sugar Dumplin to celebrate […]
Barbados – The Year of Culinary Experience
Where and what to eat in Barbados Did you know how Barbados got its name? The story has it that in the 1500’s some Portuguese sailors were passing through, dropping off some pigs when they came across the ficus tree, they decided that its long hanging roots looked remarkably like beards. The Portuguese word Os […]
Cottons Rum Shack and Restaurant – Vauxhall
The Caribbean in my Back Yard – at Cottons Vauxhall: I have a somewhat biased love for restaurants that are within walking distance. I have to confess Vauxhall is marginal – it’s around a half hour from home. But, it’s easier to walk there than rely on public transport and in any case, our very […]
Grenada Chocolate Festival – The Grown-Up Golden Ticket
Learning about Cacao at the Grenada Chocolate Festival – the Currency of Freedom: No self-respecting chocolate lover could resist a Willy Wonka style Golden Ticket invitation to the Grenada Chocolate Festival. Apart from the promise of a lot of chocolate, a trip to this stunning Caribbean island would have been incentive enough for me. And, […]
Definitely not a Last Resort – St James’s Club Antigua
Rubbing Shoulders with the Stars at St James’s Club Antigua: It has been a while since I’ve flown long haul – older and perhaps a little grumpier the idea of flights between eight and ten hours out to Antigua and back home filled me with dread. A necessary means to an end, I was grateful […]
An Introduction to the Caribbean – Antigua
Sailing Week in Antigua: While my parents travelled a lot throughout my childhood, there was a brief phase when we stayed in one place. For eight whole years. I can remember being piled into the back of the car by my father to go to the sea-side for the day. We had no idea why, […]
Barbados – Top Things to Do
Barbados – so much more than Sun and Sand Who wouldn’t be enchanted by Barbados? it’s an exotic, colourful vibrant island full of natural beauty and lush landscapes with an idyllic coastline. The weather is warm and sunny all year round with an average daytime high of 30°C, and a wonderful breeze, which means it […]