Carnival Tuesday has come and gone and all the fetes have gone into hiding, signaling the end of your Trinidadian adventure. After two weeks of nonstop bacchanal, it’s not easy to just let go of the ...

Whenever Peter Prime partied with friends at the Trinidad Steelband Panorama, a pre-Carnival winter music competition on the island, the chicken-laced pelau his friend's mother made and stuffed in a ...

Doubles are a beloved street food in Trinidad. A thin, hand-stretched flatbread is first thrown into hot oil for a crisp finish, before being piled high with spiced chickpeas. Tailor to your taste ...

When an innocent TikTok of a young, Indian-featured Trinidadian woman bussing it up at a concert with her friends blew up, the Internet had a hard time grasping the concept and existence of Indo ...

“I’m going to try not to cry!” Natasha Laggan smiles at me from the opposite end of a Zoom screen. Heart ever-present on the sleeve of her red shirt, her hair up in a simple clip… Behind her are ...

Of all the island-kissed home-style food Lisa “Queen Trini” Nelson makes — now at the kitchen of the reopened Portside Lounge — she’s especially proud of her doubles. “Doubles is a kind of street food ...

Certain foods are too powerful to stay in the past. Buljol, named for the contorted patois of the French words brulé (burned) and gueule (mouth), is a dish of dried salted cod, and has followed my ...

"Experience the vibrant flavors of Trinidad and Tobago at the Trini Food Feast! Join us by the river for an unforgettable day of liming, delicious local dishes, and lively music. Savor the tastes of ...

Bass-heavy music booms from a parked white Infiniti sedan with custom white rims. A small canteen-style truck with an eye-catching red-and-white checkerboard paint job is parked behind a canopy tent ...

Sometime last summer Jennifer Kim told me she was keenly interested in collaborating with Nariba Shepherd for a proposed Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s ongoing weekly guest chef pop-up series at ...

Natalia Kalloo is undeniably a DC insider—just not in the restaurant world. “I’m not a culinary artist or chef,” says Kalloo, a veteran employee of the District’s Office of Administrative Hearings. “I ...