If it is one thing you should try to do when you visit Guyana, it is visit the Kaieteur Falls. Deep in the interior of Guyana, amid the Pakaraima Mountains, the reddish-brown clear water of the Potaro River falls a staggering 741 feet straight down. Among the highest of the world’s single drop waterfalls, it [...]
Category Archives: Guyana
Overheard on a Plane
February 10, 2010 – 5:56 pm
On a flight from Guyana to Trinidad last week, the passenger behind me seems to be in possession of exciting new technology.
Pilot: Good afternoon from the flight deck. We are just awaiting air traffic control clearance and should be taxiing off in about 5 minutes, so we are on schedule to arrive on time in [...]
Last minute surge for Divali
October 16, 2009 – 11:32 pm
Well, a couple days ago my blog stats suddenly spiked. It’s not Eid (Eid ul Fitr was a few weeks ago, and we have some time before Eid ul Adha). As usual, even if I didn’t know, the almost single-minded focus of the searches would clue me in. Yes, it’s Divali, the Hindu Festival of [...]
It’s ‘Id ul Fitr!
September 19, 2009 – 11:43 pm
Eid Mubarak everyone! Ramadan has come to an end, and at least I caught the beginning and the end on the blog Never fear though, I was at least trying to fulfil the requirements of the month, fasting, prayers etc…not a whole lot of focus on food (that’s what happens when you balance [...]
No Cattle Allowed
May 21, 2009 – 8:19 pm
Ok, perhaps this might sound like another “paranoid’ warning about the nefarious alien bovine plots for the Earth. But people in Guyana must clearly be in the know more than I knew!
For here is a sign that has tickled my interest and raised goosebumps. “No Cattle Allowed” at the entrance to a residential area just [...]
Tastes Like Home is OUT!
November 29, 2008 – 11:55 pm
Cynthia, of Tastes Like Home
, with the gorgeous photos and delicious foods, has published her Caribbean Cookbook and it is available from Amazon.com from November 30, 2008! it will be released on January 23, 2009! Until then you can order the book from the publishers.
Cynthia is a Guyanese, living in Barbados, who writes a food column [...]
Trini Halwah Recipe
August 16, 2008 – 12:29 am
This is generally regarded as a traditional Muslim dish for the Trini and Guyanese communities of Indian descent. When I came to Guyana, I learned that people traditionally made this for the birth of a child – I found this out when my landlady, not Muslim herself but having grown up in a close village [...]
Making Dhal, Trini-style
March 26, 2008 – 12:49 am
I’ve been thinking about posting on dhal for a long time now, but Cynthia (of Tastes Like Home) did a dhal post last year, called Dal, Dhal, Dahl together with her column. Since she’s Guyanese, I find it strange that she left out the “Dholl” spelling that so captures the rounded vowel and emphasis of her [...]
Click: Guyanese Vermicelli
November 17, 2007 – 10:16 am
I had a plan for this NOODLE edition of Click! (the monthy themed food-photography event hosted by Bee and Jai of Jugalbandi), which involved sawine, Trini-style, as depicted here.
Of course, I wasn’t planning to use THAT photo which is why I had a plan to take some more artistic photograph of sawine, or vermicelli noodles [...]
Diwali in Guyana
November 10, 2007 – 7:34 am
There is an annual motorcade in Guyana for Diwali (which is supposed to be held on the darkest night of the year as it is the Festival of Lights for Hindus).
This year I understand was the most engineered and lit and it was indeed impressive as the 7 or 8 huge [...]
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