Caribbean cuisine & foodways

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@Mega, I meant to tag you and @BigMan for the last post.

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Hate Plate shouldn't separate Jamaican from Haitian



*just jokes

 

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*Her DIGITAL cookbook

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DUE TO THE DIGITAL NATURE OF THE COOKBOOK, ALL SALES ARE FINAL. Gabrielle Reyes here! And I’m so thrilled to take you...

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*her recipes featured in the official tiktok PRINT cookbook (great look. and promotion for her)

Wow..I just read her background and also what happened to her parents.
R.I.P to her Father. Mental Illness is no joke.

 

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These celebrity chefs opening restaurants in Harrah’s as New Orleans casino becomes Caesars​

Jan 9, 2023

Compère Lapin chef and co-owner Nina Compton, in 2016.

Soon, visitors to Harrah’s New Orleans casino will be able to sample dishes from three high-profile chefs, including one local star, in quick-serve, walk-right-up style.
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, baker and “Cake Boss” star Buddy Valastro and New Orleans chef Nina Compton will each open their own distinct concepts in a new food hall in the casino.
Work on the food hall, located on the first floor in what had been a theater, is nearing completion. The three restaurants are slated to open in mid-February, casino officials confirm.

A rendering of the forthcoming food hall at Harrah's New Orleans casino featuring concepts from three high-profile chefs. (Contributed image from Caesars)

Flay will have a new location of his Bobby’s Burgers brand here, with burgers, fries and shakes, and Valastro will open his second PizzaCake location with pizzas and desserts.

Compton will unveil something entirely new. Nina’s Creole Cottage will be the chef’s first fast-casual concept, serving original dishes drawn from a blend of island and Louisiana interpretations of Creole cooking.

The food hall is latest in a sweeping, $325 million project to expand and transform the casino at the foot of Canal Street into Caesars. The overall project includes a new hotel tower and a restaurant by international sushi master Nobu Matsuhisa, set to open next year.

The forthcoming food hall is designed around a much more casual approach, with the trio of eateries clustered together, each with its own look and style.

Nina’s Creole Cottage takes its design cues from New Orleans architecture and has a mural hand-painted by the chef’s sister, Fiona Compton.

A rendering of Nina's Creole Cottage, the concept from New Orleans chef Nina Compton


Compton’s menu uses casual dishes to draw a thread between the different ideas of Creole cultivated from the Caribbean to Louisiana.

“We wanted to tie in the two Creoles, what I grew up with and what we have here,” said Compton, a native of St. Lucia.

Two examples: fried chicken and plantain waffles and rice and pea croquettes. The restaurant will serve frozen drinks as well.


“This definitely stays true to what we do in New Orleans; it’s fun and festive. People come to have a great time and eat really good food,” she said.

Compton arrived in New Orleans in 2015 after her star turn on "Top Chef" the year before. She and her husband, Larry Miller, opened their first restaurant, Compère Lapin, downtown with a style blending Caribbean, French and Italian flavors. In 2018 she won the James Beard award for Best Chef: South, and the couple opened their second restaurant, Bywater American Bistro, that same year.

 

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*trailer
Think this aired years ago, on French tv. The Full 10 episode season is up on youtube now (in English)

La Jamaïque au goût de Marley Saison 1 (2019) — CinéSéries

La Jamaïque au goût de Marley, La saison 1 démarée en 2019 contient 10 episodes. "La Jamaïque au goût de Marley" La série documentaire Taste of Marley aborde la culture jamaïcaine à travers les yeux de Rohan Marley fils du légendaire musicien Bob Marley.

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Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

A plant biology team has, for the first time, traced five major lineages of Caribbean breadfruit back to that single introduction from Captain William Bligh’s 1793 voyage.

news.northwestern.edu

Full article CURRENT BIOLOGY Vol. 3 Issue #1 01/09/23
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*streaming now on HBO MAX

Atlanta farmer Jamila Norman teaches the do's and don'ts of home food gardens in TV series 'Homegrown' - WABE

In our highly interconnected and interdependent lives, self-reliance may seem remote, especially when resources and space are limited. But Atlanta-based urban farmer Jamila Norman is teaching everyday families how to […]

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The Worlds Oldest Rum Sells for a World Record Amount: A Bottle of the 1780 Harewood Barbados Rum Auctioned for $29,999

Old Liquor Inc announced the sale of the world’s oldest rum. The rum is said to have been auctioned for a world record setting price of $29,999.

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*excerpt about the previous auction of the item in 2013 from Christie's auction house

THE HAREWOOD RUM Sold on behalf of Lord Harewood's Charitable Settlement, to benefit the Geraldine Connor Foundation The story of the Harewood Rum begins in 1711, when Henry Lascelles, aged just 21, travelled from Yorkshire to the West Indies to pursue the family business of sugar, cotton, tobacco - and rum. This was a time when great fortunes were being made by many of Britain's great institutions - the Church, the Royal Family, banks, artistic and educational establishments – as well as individual families, all of it on the backs of the African slave labour that made the sugar trade so profitable. We now see the business he was in as an abhorrent one.
. To that end, the original Christie’s sale proceeds went to benefit the Geraldine Connor Foundation.

Geraldine Connor Foundation

Harewood House Trust is an educational charity, set up to share, maintain and conserve Harewood House and its grounds for the public benefit, which was founded in 1986. The Trust recognises its…

harewood.org

 

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*excerpt of presentation about the aims of the co-op

Spoiler: fact sheet

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Jan 19, 2023

Barbados to implement policies to remove fatty acids from local foods​

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. Jerome Walcott.

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. Jerome Walcott, addressing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) High-Level Technical Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health, said the move to crack down on trans fats is among efforts such as food labelling, taxes on unhealthy foods and campaigns to limit the amount of sugar in drinks to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in the face of commercial determinants.
“Commercial determinants of health and trade are also important drivers of NCDs in SIDS. (They are) defined as the private sector activities that affect people’s health positively or negatively. Underpinning the commercial determinants of health is an understanding that large, multinational companies can exercise broad influence on the economic, physical, social and cultural environments in which people live,” Walcott said.
“In fact, through their influence on food prices, availability, and advertising, trade agreements and policies, they have accelerated the nutritional shift away from traditional diets, resulting in increased levels of obesity, food insecurity and NCDs. Sometimes, due to the size and nature of the commercial actors involved, governments in SIDS face impossible odds in securing regulatory protection to improve health.

Walcott told the delegates that small island developing states shared a disproportionately high burden of the risk factors, morbidity, and premature mortality caused by non-communicable diseases, mental health conditions, and their determinants.
He said 52 percent of people, aged 30 to 69 with NCDs in SIDS countries, are dying prematurely, and with risk factors showing that 28 percent of adults, aged 18 and above, do not engage in enough physical activity

 

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