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Flights

American Airlines Is Flying Nonstop to a Caribbean Island With Powdery Beaches, Neon Water, and a Shark Lab

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Bimini comes into view low and flat, a thin strip of land in the Gulf Stream set against water that changes color as you approach. Deep blue gives way to turquoise, then to pale, shallow flats where the bottom is visible from the surface. Boats slow as they near the harbor. The island’s shape becomes […]

News

Nigel Spence: Two New Recipes for Thanksgiving

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor As the Thanksgiving Holiday rolls around, with it comes a flurry of activity and excitement as families prepare to master the most important of all meals – the Thanksgiving Feast. Supermarket shelves fully stacked with boxes of stuffing mix, instant sides, candied yams and more, will soon be stripped bare […]

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This Is Your New Thanksgiving Rum Cocktail

Sure, you’ll find a lot of recipes for hot buttered rum this week, or perhaps an early egg nog with spiced rum. But why not go grand? That’s where our favorite new recipe comes in: the Creole Royale, a French Caribbean take on the classic Kir Royale champagne cocktail. It’s a mix of classic champagne […]

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Crystal Cruises’ New Caribbean Itinerary

Above: a Crystal Cruises ship By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Crystal Cruises has unveiled a new itinerary for the upcoming winter season. Crystal Cruises is inviting passengers to “give thanks” on its new ultra-luxury voyages debuting this Thanksgiving. The new Caribbean cruises will provide passengers a unique change in scenery for the holiday, without sacrificing […]


This Is Your New Thanksgiving Rum Cocktail

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year can be challenging for weight watchers, and by the time January 1 rolls around many of us are reaching into our closets for those elastic-waist pants. But it doesn’t have to be that way. My first tip: Try to approach holiday eating […]

Caribbean Plate: A Thanksgiving Recipe From Puerto Rico

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Procrastinators rejoice! If you still haven’t decided on your Thanksgiving menu or even bought your bird, we’ve got this last-minute suggestion for you from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Condado Plaza Hilton. It features turkey tenderloin (so you won’t have to spend hours in front of the oven), and the […]

Rum Journal: A Hot Rum Punch Recipe For Thanksgiving

For CJ readers who aren’t in the Caribbean right now, we sympathize. And we have some help for you. Phil Greene, the author of To Have and Have Another, an Ernest Hemingway cocktail companion, has offered the recipe for what he calls the “Hemingway Hot Rum Punch.” And trust us, it will warm you up […]

Nigel Spence: A Culinary Lesson For Thanksgiving

With the Thanksgiving holiday on the horizon, our thoughts turn to winter and the procurement of a bird worthy of gracing our holiday table for the big feast. We begin scouting cookbooks and food magazines for new twists on traditional recipes or for the promise of new modern techniques to cook the bird faster, tastier […]

Rum Journal: 10 Great Rum Cocktail Recipes For Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving — time for egg nog, right? Well, not quite. There’s nothing like a classic egg nog with rum, but we thought we’d offer a list of 10 great alternative holiday cocktails using the finest rums from the Caribbean and the world. If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, have a wonderful holiday. If you’re not, […]

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 from the other kids at school, I had no real expectations for the dinner or festivities involved, […]

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