From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Mango Sorbet

July 30, 2010
Mango Sorbet

“Boy, it’s hot.  This is hot.  It never got this hot in Brooklyn.  It’s like Africa hot.  Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.  I don’t know if I can stay here if it’s going to be this hot.”  Matthew Broderick as Eugene Morris Jerome in Neil Simon’s ”Biloxi Blues”

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Taking the Cure: Pineapple Chow

July 22, 2010
Pineapple Chow

When I feel a cold coming on, nothing sets me right faster than a searing dose of scotch bonnet peppers, the more incendiary the better.  Chicken soup is a fine cure, to be sure.  But what I crave when the fog of a summer cold sets in is a good hot Trinidadian chicken curry.  Served with a stinging hot choka and [...]

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Chicken Liver Pâté

July 7, 2010
Chicken Liver Pate

If there’s one thing we’re good at here in the islands, it’s parties.  Any excuse will do…half birthdays, weird holidays, Tuesdays.  So when Bobby Gray turned 60 a few weeks ago we had ourselves a fine excuse for a party.  Bobby’s wife, the lovely and talented artist Lisa Muddiman Gray, threw a surprise bash at our mutual friend Andy Mudie’s house in the [...]

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