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Caribbean Plate: Green Mango Salad with Poached Prawns

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Come home from your vacation with a few extra pounds? We’ve all been there. Those pina coladas and double desserts will get you every time. So now you’ve returned to reality it’s time to […]

Caribbean Cookbook: A Recipe for Braised Oxtail from Jamaica

The latest edition of Caribbean Cookbook heads to the famous Half Moon resort in Jamaica, where Chef Omar Sybblis of the Pepperpot Restaurant has offered up his special recipe for braised oxtail, Jamaican style. Here’s how to make it: Ingredients […]

Caribbean Plate: Crispy Plantain-Stuffed Chicken From Barbados

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor To the long list of reasons why you should rent a Caribbean villa let’s add the most delicious rationale of all: customized dining options. Book a home away from home and mealtimes instantly go […]

How to Make Jamaican Peppered Shrimp

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor As a kid I remember very well my brother teaching me to drive my grandfather’s old beat up blue stick shift Vauxhall Viva that was always parked in the driveway at home, while my grandfather […]

10 Ways You Can Eat in the Caribbean For Less Than $10

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor You don’t have to spend a fortune to eat well in the Caribbean. Sample some authentic local flavor – and get back change from a $10 bill – when you try these island street-food […]

Island Bites: Finding Grand Bahama’s Best Conch Salad

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you’re a conch salad craver, you’ll want to add Grand Bahama’s Billy Joe’s to your must-eat list. This rustic, decades-old seaside set-up next to Freeport’s Grand Lucayan serves one of the best conch […]

Recipe For a Caribbean Summer

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor SUMMER IS officially here folks! It’s time to clean up that grill and get your barbecue on…  Many of you may think that grilling is a simple matter of lighting some charcoal and searing your choice […]

Caribbean Cookbook: Crispy Skin Black Cod From Chef Ron Duprat

THE LATEST Caribbean Cookbook comes to you from Haiti’s most famous chef, Ron Duprat, who sent in his recipe for crispy skin black cod. Duprat sent in the recipe on the occasion of the recent Taste of the Caribbean competition […]

A Caribbean Father’s Day Recipe

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor Did you know the Fathers’ Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd? Her idea was to create a similar celebration to complement Mother’s Day, honoring fatherhood and […]

Caribbean Cookbook: From Jamaica, Tamarind Glazed Salmon

THE LATEST edition of Caribbean Cookbook heads to Jamaica and the kitchen of Chef Gian Stewart, Chef de Partie at the Sandals Royal Plantation hotel in Jamaica, a certified Executive Chef who will be competing with the Jamaican team at […]

Caribbean Cookbook: From Anguilla, Conch Fritters With Yellow Curry Sauce

Caribbean Cookbook will be featuring recipes from some of the Caribbean’s best chefs in the next month as they prepare to compete in the upcoming Taste of the Caribbean competition in Miami. The first recipe comes from Teron Thompson, a […]

Caribbean Cookbook: Crab Stew and Coconut Arancini From Puerto Rico

THE LATEST edition of Caribbean Cookbook comes to us from the Condado Plaza Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This recipe for Salmorejo (Crab Stew) and Coconut Arancini is the brainchild of Executive Chef Germania Maria Diaz, who delighted attendees […]

Caribbean Cookbook: Pan-Roasted Snapper From Antigua’s Curtain Bluff

THE LATEST edition of Caribbean Cookbook comes to you from the Curtain Bluff resort in Antigua, home to Executive Chef Christophe Blatz. The resort’s chef has been kind enough to share his recipe for pan-roasted snapper with Caribbean Cookbook, which […]

Rum Journal: A New Recipe From Barbados’ Mount Gay Rum

MOUNT GAY’s new Black Barrel rum officially launched last year, and you can count Rum Journal as a fan (for more, see here). The rum is a new angle on the traditional quality for which Mount Gay is known, and […]

Caribbean Cookbook: A Shrimp Recipe From St Lucia’s Dasheene Restaurant

Above: Chef Nigel Mitchel CHEF NIGEL MITCHEL leads the kitchen at the famous Dasheene restaurant at the Ladera Resort in St Lucia, and he’s been kind enough to share one of his signature recipes with Caribbean Cookbook. It’s called Shrimp […]

In Jamaica, A Raw Tale of Rum and Ras

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor JAMAICA — WHILE SPENDING some well-deserved relaxation time in the deep throngs of Westmoreland, Jamaica’s West End, a long way far past Negril proper, I would find myself returning to the same bar nightly to […]

Caribbean Cookbook: A Recipe For Callaloo Dumplings From Grenada

THE LATEST Caribbean Cookbook comes to us from the Villa Belle Morne Rouge in Grenada, which sent in this delectable recipe for callaloo dumplings that the owners call “a fabulous example of Austro-Caribbean fusion comfort food.” “These are one of […]

Caribbean Cookbook: A New Take on Breadfruit From Tortola

THE LATEST edition of Caribbean Cookbook brings you a special recipe from the Sugar Mill Hotel in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. It’s called Breadfruit Vichysoisse; the Sugar Mill’s Jinx Morgan has more: At the restaurant at the Sugar Mill Hotel […]

Caribbean Cookbook: Caicos Bouillabaisse From TCI’s Parallel 23

The latest Caribbean Cookbook recipe comes from Chef Lauren Callighan from the Parallel 23 restaurant at Turks and Caicos’ Regent Palms Hotel, who has been kind enough to share her recipe for Paralell 23’s signature dish, a modern take on […]

Caribbean Cookbook: Grilled Shrimp With Pineapple, Avocado and Papaya

THE CARIBBEAN: it’s one of the world’s great culinary destinations, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy Caribbean cuisine wherever you are in the world. Our new regular feature, Caribbean Cookbook, brings you top recipes from acclaimed chefs, local cooks […]

Spence: A New Way of Eating For 2014

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor Happy New Year to all. The beginning of a new year always summons up ideas about health and wealth, reflection on the past and setting ambitious resolutions for the year ahead. Like many people, I […]

A Caribbean Christmas Memory (And a New Take on Sorrel)

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor AS CHRISTMAS ( or “The Holidays” to some) arrives, I find myself transported into a state of nostalgia. Memories of my youth flash to mind, taking me back to a time when life was simple […]

Recipe For a Caribbean Thanksgiving

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor MY FIRST experience of Thanksgiving in the United States after migrating from Jamaica as a boy was at my family’s home in Mount Vernon, NY. Not quite familiar with all the particulars of this holiday other than the musings […]

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