Rosemary Parkinson, Contributor
Left: Miss Norma Shirley should be happy! Center: Virginia Burke is all smiles. Right: A little R & R was also required! Kayaking off Nautilus Villa, Blue Lagoon. - PHOTOS BY ROSEMARY PARKINSON
BON APPETIT'S May issue is a veritable pot-pourri of exciting Caribbean fare that covers almost the whole 192 pages of the magazine.
Congratulations are to be given to Chef Norma Shirley and Virginia Burke, who contributed their stories, A Night in Jamaica and Stalls and Shacks respectively, taking the largest piece of the magazine for this island (pages 124 - 141).
Other Jamaicans mentioned in the prestigious publication are Dian Watson's famous hom... hom...hominy (my mantra as I approach Kingston) - at Contemporary Art Gallery, and for Jerk - Boston Jerk, Red Hills Road and Ocho Rios Village Jerk Centre.
TREASURES
Accommodation gives top marks to Royal Plantation Golf Resort and Spa and Le Papillon restaurant, Blue Lagoon Villas coming right behind. Nautilus Villa, the home of Xavier and Roma Chin; Anna Bananas and Dickie's Best Kept Secret are mentioned, with Café Aubergine (I thought that was a must) and Strawberry Hill getting good publicity together with Jasmine's at the Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa
Resort for their Jasian cuisine.
Pepper Sauces include Jamaica's Pickapeppa and Eaton's. For great buys Wallenford Blue 100 per cent Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee as well as Wassi Art with famed Jamaican ceramist Margaret McGhie for her hand painted plates are under Caribbean Treasures to be won - check out page 20.
From The Bahamas to Cuba, right down to Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados and Trinidad, this magazine has taken Caribbean cuisine to the level it deserves. There's no doubt about it - Jamaica picked up a nice, big chunk of this issue of Bon Appetit, so go get a copy soon. Go Jamaica!
