Carib food on the gourmet map
THE SOUTH Beach Wine and Food Festival ended on Sunday. What an excitement. I am renewed, enthusiastic, filled with hope. I have met the top chefs of the world, asked questions, informed myself and literally eaten (and drunk) every tiny bit..

Fennel (Foeniculum dulce fennel)
Fennel is a highly aromatic perennial herb that grows annually about three to four feet tall. The leaves grow up to 40 cm long and are finely divided into threadlike segments and are light green. Fennel grows easily from seed..

Cinnamon (Verum, synonym C. zeylanicum)
Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree that grows 10-15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern India. The bark is widely used as a spice. The leaves are ovate-oblong in shape, seven to.

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
Parsley is a bright green, biennial herb that is very common in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. It is popular because of its much-divided, sometimes curly leaves that have a characteristic flavour and smell. Two...

Nutmeg
Nutmeg is a spice consisting of the seed of the myristica fragrans, a tropical evergreen tree native to the Moluccas or Spice Islands of Indonesia. Nutmeg has a characteristic, pleasant fragrance and slightly warm taste...