Caribbean cuisine & foodways

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Caribbean Food - Caribshopper Brings The “Spirits” Of The Caribbean To The US

Caribshopper, a leading online marketplace for Caribbean products, has announced the launch of an exclusive range of authentic Caribbean liquors, timed perfectly for the holiday season.

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11/29/23

Who doesn’t love snagging a rezzie at a trendy, recently opened restaurant? Yelp’s inaugural list of the year’s Best New Restaurants makes it easy to find the latest hot spots at home or on the road!​

You can always count on Yelpers to sniff out the hottest newcomers on the American dining scene. And to kick off “Year on Yelp,” our community rated and reviewed 25 must-try newbies—from a Michelin-starred gastronomic experience in Los Angeles to a steak-and-sushi spot in Oklahoma City and a Korean BBQ joint in Charleston.


To celebrate the rising stars of the culinary world—and a 15% growth in new business openings each month this year (compared to 2022)—we’ve compiled a list of the Best New Restaurants of 2023. It’s a mouthwatering trip around America that highlights some of your favorite places and their most popular dishes. Follow the Best New Restaurants 2023 collection on the Yelp app.




Did your favorite “hot & new” restaurant make it into the Top 25? Let us know on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok with #YelpHotAndNew. We only know how good a spot is if you take the time to review it. So share your thoughts on Yelp, and maybe your favorites will be on next year’s Best New Restaurants list!


How we did it: This is a list of the best new restaurants in the U.S. in 2023, according to Yelp. We identified full-service businesses in the restaurant category, which opened after January 1, 2022, then ranked those spots using a number of factors, including the total volume and ratings of reviews, between January 1, 2022, and August 7, 2023. When available, all businesses on the list have a passing health score as of August 7, 2023. Finally, we consulted with Yelp Trend Expert Tara Lewis to zero in on what spots Yelpers were loving

25. Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, New York, New York​

Curried Snow Crab​

If you can score a reservation at this New York hot spot—known for its Afro-Caribbean-influenced menu—fans recommend ordering the crispy Curried Goat Patties (with green-seasoned aioli and spicy mango chutney), Egusi Dumplings with crab (made with ground melon seeds and served atop Nigerian red stew), and Short Rib Pastrami Suya (skewered wagyu meat—make it a sandwich with the caraway coco bread and melted red cabbage).


Yelpers say: “This restaurant truly is an ode to New York…it deserves every bit of the hype. The okra is just so good. The goat curry patties could be lunch every day for me. My favorite dish was the chicken. It brought the white sauce and hot sauce of New York food carts to the table in a way that was really fun and tasty. The chicken was so moist and perfectly seasoned, and the sauces were exactly what we wanted. Cocktails are good and the ambiance is fun.” —Yelp Elite Hajir S

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Yelp’s Best New Restaurants of 2023 - Yelp

We’ve spotted the top 25 best new restaurants across America, from New York and Florida to Nevada and California.

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Two Marylanders compete for $25,000 grand prize on new holiday-themed ‘MasterChef Junior’​

Zarah Spriggs, 10, of Huntingtown, and Elijah Zelaya, 10, of Ellicott City, are two Marylanders competing on ‘Masterchef Junior: Home For The Holidays,’ airing Dec. 10 on Fox.​

| Baltimore Sun
December 8, 2023
Just in time for the winter holidays, MasterChef Junior has cooked up a new show, “MasterChef Junior: Home for the Holidays,” premiering this weekend.
Competing for a $25,000 grand prize — plus ultimate schoolyard bragging rights — will be not one, but two pint-sized Marylanders: 10-year-olds Elijah Zelaya, from Ellicott City, and Zarah Spriggs, from Huntingtown.
“I was really nervous at first, having new people around me and being in a new environment,” Spriggs said of filming in the Master Chef Junior kitchen studio.
But, to answer the burning question on many fans’ minds, “Gordon Ramsay was so nice,” Zelaya said.
The new, two-night television special will kick off Sunday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fox, with the winner awarded a Viking Kitchen supply package and a snow globe trophy, in addition to the cash, by the end of Monday night. The episodes will become available on Hulu the day after they air on Fox.
And there’s a seasonal twist: The nine contestants from across the country will be cooking dishes fit for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other holidays, to be judged by none other than Ramsay, his daughter Tilly Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez and Daphne Oz.
“Two brown kids, from Maryland … it was a prideful moment,” said Spriggs’ mom, Leela Spriggs.
Spriggs, a fifth grade student at Huntingtown Elementary School, “always loved to hang around the kitchen” from the age of 3, she said, prompting her mother to teach her how to cook. Salmon, steak “and anything with cheese” are her favorite foods to cook (and eat).
“She’s like my sous chef in the kitchen,” Leela Spriggs said. They cook East and West Indian dishes together, with plenty of vegan options mixed in. Spriggs also runs a cookie business with her twin brother, Aiden, called Aiden & Zarah’s NumNum

Like Spriggs, Zelaya, a fifth-grader at a Howard County elementary school, said his first foray into the kitchen was around the age of 3, as his “mom’s helper.” By age 6, he was cooking independently — and he now counts moqueca de camarão (a Brazilian seafood stew) and chocolate soufflé among his favorite dishes to make.
Some of the Haitian dishes Zelaya cooks he learned from his grandmother.
“He’s always experimenting. He loves learning about new cultures,” said his father, Jeff Zelaya, noting TikTok as one source of inspiration for new recipes.
Zelaya cooks around 80% of the family’s meals now, his dad estimated, and posts about his cooking journey on Instagram. That’s where a producer contacted him about trying out for the holiday-themed MasterChef Junior competition, he said.
Spriggs’ application process started last winter, her mother said.
The episodes were filmed in Los Angeles at the start of the year after a group of contenders were flown to the city to cook for the judges in person, Leela Spriggs said. Departing for Los Angeles, she remembered seeing Zelaya at the airport and suspecting he was also headed to the MasterChef Junior set.
“Being there and not knowing what the future would hold for our children, and the amount of stress that they went through … it was really, really, really stressful,” Leela Spriggs said.
But the young chefs befriended their competitors.
“They’re rising to the occasion,” Jeff Zelaya said. “You see their skills increase, you see them encourage each other. … Even though they’re competing, they’re shouting to each other, ‘Hey, you can do it.’ Rooting each other on.”
On the show, Zelaya cooks dishes for Noche Buena, Haitian Independence Day and Christmas, and Spriggs cooks a Diwali meal, they said. The specifics of their dishes were kept under wraps before the big premiere.
“It was fun to cook, but then when you actually bring up the dish” to Ramsay and the other judges, it was intimidating, Zelaya said. “Because you couldn’t run away. … All you could do was just stand there.”
Zelaya and Spriggs said they learned practical skills in the kitchen, like safe and efficient techniques for chopping, peeling and scooping up cut vegetables.
“The pantry was full,” Zelaya said of the cornucopia of ingredients at contestants’ disposal. “They had a lot of equipment I had never even seen before.”
They also developed ways to keep their cool.
“If the pressure is unbearable, step away, breathe for a moment and come back to your station,” Zelaya said.
“As a parent, I learned just how resilient my kid is,” Jeff Zelaya said.
To those looking to try their hand at cooking, the pair of young Maryland chefs suggested having fun with it — and not taking criticism too hard. Flops are a chance to learn something new, Spriggs said.
In the MasterChef Junior kitchen, the stakes are high. But for contestants, the craft is familiar.
“I just did what I know,” Zelaya said

 

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Haiti and Cuban eastern province meet for greater protection of coffee heritage ​

08 December 2023

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Dec 8 (ACN) Specialists from Haiti and Santiago de Cuba, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO), exchanged in this province on the protection of the coffee heritage.

Tatiana Villegas, director of the UNESCO office in Port-au-Prince, told the press that the objective of the meeting is to learn from what has been done to achieve the declaration of the Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in Southeastern Cuba as a World Heritage Site.

She pointed out that the results of the joint work of scholars from the two nations will allow strengthening the proposal to obtain the international status granted by UNESCO, since the Haitian coffee heritage was discovered in 2009 and classified as National Heritage in 2015.

Villegas highlighted the potential to achieve, in the future, greater relations between both countries, in order to create a coffee route that will contribute to the promotion of history and cultural traditions, as well as to the development of tourism.

For her part, Yaumara Lopez, chief of the Coffee Roads project of the Office of the City Conservator of Santiago de Cuba, affirmed the progress in the research, which is positive, in order to continue the cooperation between Cuban and Haitian institutions, initiated in 2004

 

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Nationally Celebrated Restaurant Kann Collaborates With Deadstock to Release a Haitian Spiced Coffee

Plus, Son of Man ciders win international awards, and more news to know

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Two Marylanders compete for $25,000 grand prize on new holiday-themed ‘MasterChef Junior’​

Zarah Spriggs, 10, of Huntingtown, and Elijah Zelaya, 10, of Ellicott City, are two Marylanders competing on ‘Masterchef Junior: Home For The Holidays,’ airing Dec. 10 on Fox.​

Clips of the two contestants from episode 1, tonight is the finals

 

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Dec 5, 2023

Celebrate the holidays with baked macaroni and ponche de crème

Spice up the holidays with these festive Trinidadian recipes.

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Riaz Phillips’ recipe for Guyanese pepperpot with green seasoning

An ancestral Guyanese stew often made at Christmas with a rich herb and spice mix for extra depth

Mon 11 Dec 2023

One of the largest remaining populations of indigenous Amerindian tribes in the English-speaking Caribbean is found in Guyana, where the legacies of the Warrau, Arawak and Carib can be seen to this day. Among the most famous of these is the cultivation and consumption of cassava root, after the Arawak developed a way to turn the prussic acid in cassava juice into a non-poisonous vinegar by cooking it. They called this cassareep and, together with local spices and pepper, it forms the basis of Guyanese pepperpot, a slow-cooked, jet-black stew that’s usually reserved for Christmas, when it’s traditionally paired with plait bread. It’s quite different from the pepperpot of other Caribbean countries, or even the African-American version, because the cassareep brings a deep, rich, slightly tangy sweetness to a gently peppery sauce that gets progressively thicker over time and that sticks to bread like metal to magnets.

Traditionally, pepperpot was made with whatever meat the native peoples could catch, including deer, hogs and even wild rodents; today, though, unless you venture deep into the Guyanese interior, you’re more likely to find it made with more recognisable meats. There’s essentially no replacement for cassareep, so look for it in Caribbean and African food stores, or online. It can be an acquired taste, especially if it’s your first time; the more you use, the thicker and deeper browny-black the sauce will be.

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Riaz Phillips’ recipe for Guyanese pepperpot with green seasoning

An ancestral Guyanese stew often made at Christmas with a rich herb and spice mix for extra depth

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NBA App debuts #NBAXmas Cookbook

Try recipes from all 30 teams' home markets with the #NBAXmas Cookbook!

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