Haitian Thanksgiving? I offered a few nods this past week, but when someone asked me if I was having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, I thought, well yes, because what would be a Haitian Thanksgiving dinner anyway? In Haiti, my family always celebrated Thanksgiving, but my parents just carried that over from living in New York Continue Reading
Give you heat? You can’t handle the heat! Among my varied international friends and acquaintances, Haitian coleslaw, ‘picklees’, has even my die hard Indian friends (the ones that don’t flinch when putting five jalapenos in a cup of guacamole) clearing their throats. Picklees, should be sprinkled on by the teaspoon as opposed to heaping mounds Continue Reading
You’re worldly, or worldly like (you watch the Travel channel all the time), and you enjoy cultures. Perhaps you regularly peruse the aisles of your local gourmet supermarket vowing this year will be the time you do pick up some Tahini, and stock up on the ingredients all those chefs on HGTV use it in Continue Reading