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Food
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
On Track & On The Record
Montego Bay officially welcomed Usain Bolt's Tracks & Records (UBT&R) in May earlier this year, signalling the third such opening in Jamaica. The brand is distinctively Jamaican, and offerings incorporate local seasonings, spices and cooking methods to deliver that truly... Read More
'Peckish Fridaze'
Fridays are important to many for several reasons. For some it signifies the end of the workweek, payday, a day to get together with friends. Some will attest no Friday evening is really complete unless it involves drinks, games and of course good food. Thursday... Read More
Royal'ly Fine Dining
Thursday Food recently enjoyed dinner inside the Regency Restaurant at Sandals Royal Caribbean, Montego Bay. Each course from the chilled vine-ripened tomatoes to the flavourful soy and miso-glazed salmon and succulent surf and slide-off-the fork turf were memorable. Desserts,... Read More
Demystifying Orange Wine
First, let's get this out the way. Orange wines are not made from oranges. Now, let's move along. They are in fact white wines that are produced more like reds. That is, white wine grapes are fermented with their skins on before pressing and this process gives the wine its trademark hue... Read More
Downtown food jaunt
In the second Thursday Food food jaunt series, we head to downtown Kingston at noon and ask passersby where they were heading for lunch. Our findings may surprise you. Read More
The Adtelligent 8@8 Dinner Series: Jerk Rice and Cultural Appropriation
Two chefs, a politician, three creatives, an academic and an engineer walk into a dinner party. This is not the beginning of a bad joke. It was the reality for a group of Jamaicans last Thursday who gathered around a dinner table to talk about a topic that was sure to make their blood... Read More
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