Chicken soup is a comfort food, a restorative elixir, and has its rightful place in nearly every food culture across the globe. In the Caribbean and West Africa, chicken soup is often infused with the ...

Scotch bonnet peppers are the chilies of choice in Caribbean cooking, lending a fiery bite to sauces and marinades. Pureed with sugar, scallions and warm spices, the yellow-red pepper pods are an ...

Now that we are in the warmest months of the year, we see a lot of our spring crops in decline. But there are a few crops that are still producing, and some will continue to produce until the first ...

Jim Penne wanted his jerk sauce to be as authentic as possible. So he grows his own Scotch bonnet peppers. "My wife and me have been to Jamaica many times and we really love their jerked foods. I ...

This simple starter of fried plantains quickly became the star of Adrian Forte’s menu at Sam Jordan’s modern Caribbean restaurant Lucia, which opened on Fairfax Avenue in the spring. The caramelized, ...

At this point in our ever-evolving food culture, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. But I feel like I’m in uncharted territory as I pull back the foil on a Jamaican curried goat burrito. It turns ...

The Scotch Bonnet hot pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq) thrives well under tropical and sub-tropical climatic conditions. These peppers fall within the group of ‘super-hot’ chiles with a heat rating in ...

A sure fire way to distinguish between ‘locals’ and ‘foreigners’ at a Caribbean dinner table is to listen out for the request for ‘pepper sauce,’ a hot and tangy flavouring that is typically made of ...