At the time of writing, it’s rainy and I’m miserable in New York.
All I want, is to be somewhere warm and sunny in the Caribbean where I can wade out into azure waters and go for a swim.
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At the time of writing, it’s rainy and I’m miserable in New York.
All I want, is to be somewhere warm and sunny in the Caribbean where I can wade out into azure waters and go for a swim.
A) Stay home.
B) Leave the kids at Granny Camp.
C) Bring ‘em along.
For most parents of young kids planning a Caribbean escape, this multiple choice conundrum carries two easy answers, and “C” is not one of them. It’s just tough carting kids around the islands, especially if you’re predisposed to uncommon wanderings and adventures.
In my experience, though, the effort is infinitely worth it, as anything you might lose (hairs, patience, sanity) is more than compensated by memorable scenes like this one.
I’m guessing that most people with a real serious sweet tooth generally shy away from fruit. Aw, who am I kidding…I am those most people, and I most definitely don’t do fruit! It hasn’t always been this way. My childhood Caribbean diet was big on nature’s candy, but somewhere along the way my body started rejecting a lot of the raw-ripe stuff. Sweets-lovers like me need fruit, of course, and on a recent visit to Tobago I found one that just might work…
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We wuz robbed!
That’s the prevailing sentiment across the U.S. today as the general populace drags along, bitching and moaning at varying degrees over the loss of a very precious hour of time. Oh, we just love daylight saving time in the fall. But, each spring, when clocks are advanced an hour, the vitriol mistakenly directed toward Father Time (real villain: George Vernon Hudson) begins anew, making this particular Monday one of the toughest to endure.
On days like today, you need much more than five hours of energy. You need something that will pick you UP (all-caps required) and keep you going all day.
Few are the secret ingredients more essential to creating that uniquely West Indian flavor we all know and love than a simple sauce called Browning. Even if you’ve enjoyed island food your whole life, it’s entirely possible you’ve never heard of this stuff, so understated and surreptitious are its magical methods.
The proverbial straw that stirs the drink of so many island favorites – oxtail stew, peas and rice, stew chicken, stew beef, even black cake – Browning is an absolute essential in any West Indian kitchen… and yet, you won’t find a bottle of it like this in many of ‘em.
Those who frequent our site may find this hard to believe, but sometimes, just sometimes, we drink spirits other than rum! I know, I know, we’ve written about the joys of rum over a hundred times in the past two years, and now we’ve even declared this coming February The Month of Rum, but man cannot live on rum alone. (Believe me, we’ve tried.) So, before throwing ourselves enthusiastically into a whole month overflowing with the golden goodness of rum, I’d like to take a moment to enjoy my second favorite spirit: scotch.
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