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Food
Blue Mountain Meets Craft Beer
For a number of years, craft beers have surged in popularity and not just with hipsters. The majority of craft breweries are independently owned, focus on traditional brewing techniques and produce creative and radical new flavours. One flavour profile that is highly venerated is coffee. Read More
JFDF's Sneak Taste
This year's Jamaica Food and Drink Festival has quite the number of pre-festival events and it's not even year five. The second of the events, dubbed Sneak Taste, was held on Thursday, October 11 at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel's 17th-floor venue, Talk of the Town. Read More
Lunchtime at M10 Victoria Pier
Well, M-10 did it again! The popular Vineyard Town restaurant opened a second outpost at the new downtown hotspot Victoria Pier. M-10 number two is essentially a takeaway location but the food is identical to its sister restaurant. Here, too, you can expect hot and delicious dishes, good... Read More
Diary of a Passionate Wine & Spirits Sales Executive — Part 2
Here is Part 2 of an interview with Pascal Bony, sales director, Latin America & Caribbean, for the Provence Rosé Group. Bony has spent a total of 22 years, including 13 years with Hennessy Cognac, and nine years with Moët-Hennessy, dedicated to the Caribbean markets. Read More
Ribbiz Ocean Lounge
Sometimes food writers get caught up in the details of a restaurant. It's as if a Pavlovian bell is ringing in the distance and they are unable to resist feeling the texture of leather-clad chairs, closely examining the paint colour and oscillating the head as the eyes fixate on design... Read More
JFDF Wine & Food Pairing 101 with Select Brands
It's officially Jamaica Food & Drink Festival (JFDF) season! On Friday, October 5 the JFDF in conjunction with Select Brands hosted an intro to wine and food-pairing at Broken Plate. Festival project manager Nasma Chin welcomed guests to the first in a series of JFDF seminars. She... Read More
Jamaica Food and Drink Festival 2018 Goes Biodegradable
In its fourth staging, the Jamaica Food and Drink Festival (JFDF) returns with not only an amazing line-up, but also a focus on reducing its environmental footprint. In keeping with its parent company CB Foods' Live Better mantra, starting this year, JFDF has pledged to use biodegradable... Read More
Fourth Annual Jamaica Food & Drink Festival
It's that time of year again when we just have to give in to the fact that we all have to buy 'roomier' clothes once October is over. The fourth annual Jamaica Food & Drink Festival (JFDF) runs October 20 - 28, and this year promises more deliciousness and support for Kingston's... Read More
The Queen Loves Callaloo Soup
On Monday, October 1 HBO aired a new landmark documentary — Queen of the World . Having been given “privileged access to The Queen, her family, her staff and her... Read More
Anthony Bourdain's Posthumous Parts Unknown
The first episode of the 12th and final season of Anthony Bourdain's award-winning travel show Parts Unknown aired on CNN on Sunday, September 23. The chef sent shock waves across the world in June when news broke of... Read More
Diary of a Passionate Wine & Spirits Sales Executive: Part 1
Wine professionals flock to our shores each year to visit existing distributors, identify new distributors, conduct tastings and waitstaff training; plus, a host of other activities. Read More
Prost! Oktoberfest with Christina Simonitsch
For two weeks every year, almost six million people descend upon Theresienwiese in Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest. The Bavarian folk festival is known to revolve around beer and in the celebration's 200-year history it has only been cancelled 24 times. The beer never stops flowing! This... Read More
The Duchess of Sussex brings people “Together”
In the wee hours of Wednesday, June 14, 2017, a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey, working-class housing complex in North Kensington in London. The fire that burned for over 60 hours claimed 72 lives, injured over 70 persons and displaced 106 families. The fire, documented as... Read More
Wine and Food Pairings to Avoid
There are times that I can't help but share my opinion when a wine pairing disappoints. Read More
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