West Indian Food.
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Hi all
Are there any White British people that like West Indian food? If so what do you like and when did you first try it.
Just curious.
Are there any White British people that like West Indian food? If so what do you like and when did you first try it.
Just curious.
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we do jerk chicken wings made with jerk seasoning from a jar - dunnes river i think.
when i was in costa rica, i was on the carribean side and there was a lot of beens and rice on the menu, not too fussed on the beans like
Also, dark rum and ginger beer is the most underrated and delicious combination ever
We buy a lot of goat as it is cheaper than lamb and I love lamb and it has similar taste.
Might as well get goat, it does have a slightly different taste, plus it is a lot cheaper than lamb.
My local butcher told me because of cost cutting they are only selling major cuts e.g. sirloin, rump, ribeye; of the most popular meats because they can't afford to have other cuts going to waste.
what an old fashioned attitude the people at your work have!!!
They're probably jealous really or boring farts who would find the most plainest dishes as adventurous!
My name is Millie Muppet and I'm an ackee and saltfish addict!
My OH is half-Jamaican half-Bajan, but I actually tried West Indian for the first time in Edinburgh's only Jamaican restaurant, Coyaba, several years back.
We also eat jerk chicken at home occasionally, and plantain chips a lot
My OH's dad is going to make me ackee and saltfish next time we visit. It's quite sad how excited I am.
It's also a chance for the people who bring in sandwiches, to get a taste of the exotic foods they smell from the microwave every lunchtime.
A Couple of years ago I went to a christening, the food was fantastic, I got to take home a doggy bag and some home made ginger beer. Delish.:)
As I've heard that it's the definitive guide to traditional Trinidadian cuisine
www.trinigourmet.com/index.php/the-naparima-girls-high-school-cookbook/
www.uncommoncaribbean.com/2010/11/22/taste-of-the-caribbean-naparima-girls-h-s-cookbook-updated-revised-edition/
and am looking to buy one as a present but even used copies are going for £50+ on eBay and Amazon marketplace
So I'm just wondering whether it really is so good that it's worth importing a shiny new copy from Canada / USA (where they are retailing at around £25) or can someone recommend an equally comprehensive guide to classic Trini recipes that's available here in the UK?
Ive always wondered that, and also in regards to tv programmes, theres a plethora of indian,italian, chinese, baking shows but not that many geared toward west indian foods.
I was introduced to it quite young as I have always lived and worked in areas where there are lots of different ethnicities. Being a little piggy, I am keen to try everything but when I started working at Brixton a woman used to cook up dishes and bring them in foil trays in her car at lunchtime, we would give our orders in the morning and its delivered at lunch. I just loved the snapper and 'food', I love food like that. Love patties, dumpling, salt fish (dont like all the bones though).
I now live somewhere that has absolutely no ethnic shops or diversity whatsoever which is a real shame. Although to be fair, Ive now given up a lot of the food that I would choose, I like all the carby stuff.
Probably not so much in other areas of the country.
Levi Roots did a series on it so there might be some places from that series to visit.
Jamie Oliver also did an episode on that type of food so you might find some places from there, although I think it was a home cooked meal that he had.
I had my first taste of Trinidadian food last year and I loved it. I had a roti with chicken curry, doubles and poularie. Good stuff. Trinidad have a lot of descendants from India and this is reflected in the food which has a lot of Indian influences.
I was fortunate enough to get a Caribbean cooking lesson for my birthday, which I redeemed recently and I was taught how to cook the French West Indian delicacies of breadfruit fritter and onion salsa, 'Columbo' chicken curry (so-called because the spices were imported from Sri Lanka), sweet potato gratin, cho cho salad and flambé gratin. It was wonderful.
Its not that there arent any at all, there are a few, but when you compare the influence that italian and indian restaurants/food have had, its nothing like that. Jamie Oliver cooks nothing but Italian food sometimes (although thats how he started off so fair enough) but the fact that you can only identify Levi Roots (and so can I only identify him) says a lot when you have italian, indian, aisan cooks/cookery all over the telly all the time. (and, most west indian people I know will be very snooty about levi roots anyway)
It's a shame the BBC has never commissioned a prime time series which could do for Caribbean cuisine what Ken Hom and Madhur Jaffrey did for Chinese and Indian cookery back in the 1980s.
The only Caribbean chef I can recall seeing on mainstream TV was Rustie Lee on TV-am whilst Rhodes Across The Caribbean is the sole series I've watched on the cable channels in which a well known British chef has travelled to the islands.
It is a bit odd when you consider how many shows are dedicated to other nations' cuisine, like you say.