A table at The Cliff. A week at Sandy Lane. A villa in Paynes Bay with the whole family coming in for Christmas. Barbados has long had its own version of the Caribbean festive season, one defined by packed hotels, hard-to-get restaurant reservations and repeat visitors who return every December. This year, United Airlines is putting considerably more seats […]
Above: a Bacardi ad from 1902 (Photo: Bacardi) Just like Haiti’s Barbancourt, which Rum Journal tasted last week, another major player in the rum world is celebrating its sesquicentennial. It was 1830 when Don Facundo Bacardi Massó, a wine merchant, left Cataluña in Spain for Cuba. In 1862, Bacardi purchased a modest distillery in Santiago […]
Above: image by Allan Wallace By the Caribbean Journal staff Following the five-month Bahama Mama exhibition, which explored the art of Bahamian women, a new initiative takes a look at the art of Bahamian men. “Nurturing Brotherhood” is the latest show from the Public Treasury Art Programme, which converts Nassau’s Public Treasury building into a […]
Above: Barbancourt’s distillery This week’s Rum Journal takes a look at the best-known rum out of Haiti, which is, in fact, a rhum. In the world of cane spirits, the letter “h” says a lot — signifying the difference between a spirit made from fermented molasses and one from fermented sugar cane juice. (The latter […]
