Hello everyone! I am back in Olympia finishing up my independent project this quarter. It is strange to be back from Trinidad, but I am excited to be back in school and working for the admissions office. This is the prime season for admissions! We are having so many wonderful conversations with students and parents [...]
Moving in a different direction from personal situations of accessible food, I recently spoke with a woman by the name of Paula who, after making her fair share of Evergreen jokes, told me something very interesting. Not long ago, there was a large quantity of land set aside for the cultivation of crops and other [...]
Earlier this week, one of my good friends asked me to meet her during her lunch break: at a Wendys. I decided to forgo eating at this little lunch date due not only to the fact that I could not handle the irony of me including a large portion of the negative aspects of fast [...]
Over the course of my stay here, I’ve mostly been doing interviews, reading articles, and some archival research. However, earlier this week I had the opportunity to help a woman, Chandra, make roti in her home. A native of Trinidad, she is married to a German businessman by the name of Klaus, and they live [...]
Waiting for my favorite doubles stand to open…
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Throughout this week, our activity has been fairly slow. Despite the reduced pace, I’ve still managed to focus on some different aspects of Trinidadian culinary productions and I’d like to share some of them in the sampling. First, I’ll be talking about one of the most popular beach foods, “bake and shark”, followed up with [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about “doubles”, a common street food here in Trinidad that I eat quite often. There are several types of quickly prepared food(not fast food) that are popular here in Trinidad; if you somehow have eaten your fill on doubles for the week, a good Roti shop is a good [...]
Greetings! Today, my travel partner and I visited the House of Jaipur Indian Tea Room in Port-of-Spain. Hidden away on a street that primarily consists of residential homes, the Tea House can be a little hard to find to the average passerby. Over nine years old, House of Jaipur has been serving authentic Indian cuisine [...]