Arrival

What a fantastic way to be greeted upon arrival home for Christmas – black cake and rum punch at the airport, delivered personally by Santa! It really does not get any better!

A friend who’s travelling with me spilled her rum punch and had to get a replacement, a woman nearby whispered: “Like you drunk already.”

I’ve found that I am so excited to eat the foods I have not had in ages and I am not making as many notes as I should be; I am promising myself that I am going to have some on another occasion when I have slowed down; right now I just feel like eating everything with caution thrown to the wind; but I am being sensible.

Home for Christmas

I’m going home for Christmas. It’s been 8 years since my last Christmas in Guyana. It’s a great time for a foodie like me to be visiting, not because of the abundance of the season but because it provides a unique opportunity to re-acquaint my taste-buds with the foods I grew up on; and also to evaluate my taste.

What I mean by evaluating my taste is this – do some of the foods I long for still have that evocative look, smell and taste that transports and elevates me to culinary heights? or, have my taste-buds changed? Have they gotten too sophisticated or have they lost their knowledge of some things?

Follow me on-line as I eat at home. I’ll try to post daily of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touch of food.

Happy Holidays Everybody!

Counting Calories

Read Kim Severson’s story in this week’s New York Times as it relates to the recent ban on Trans Fats and the choices we make.
The link is the title of this post.

Vote Trans Fat Ban

Click on the link above for an update on the voting to take place in New York. For the original story, please see my earlier post on September 27, 06.

Preparing to Eat

In this week’s column I wrote about preparing for the Christmas day meal. In doing research for the column, I also asked some of my friends how they prepare for the holiday feasting: preparing for consumption. Without “outing” them, here are some of the things they said:

“I join a weight-loss program to make space for all the new weight to go.”
“Deliberate shopping for pants with elastic waists is always a bad sign.”
“Go on a fish diet.”
“Clean out the system – epson salts and senna pods.”
“Stop drinking sweet drinks & alcoholic beverages two weeks before…”
“Stay away from all meats.”