and for the BC Raw stickers.... Food & Food AND Food The 2013 Barbados Tourism Authority Food & Wine AND Rum Festival – it has that particular styling to the name – Food ampersand Wine all-caps AND Rum – built in, another graphic artist’s good idea. But, for me – I’m not really drinking – it’s really been a Food & Food AND Food festival; and that’s been great. Last night’s Wine World Ambrosia IV, held at the Lion Castle polo ground clubhouse, was reminiscent of the old Taste T&T Trinidad and Tobago’s own national promotion agency, the Tourism Development Company, used to put on at the stadium in Port of Spain. Some of the best chefs on island, like Marco Festini Cropper and Michael Hinds, joined American chef Anne Burrell to prepare their own fine dining small plate dishes. As at Taste T&T, many of them tried to outdo one another – and the benefit again went to the ticketholder. There was some really good food on offer, with the three best prepared by the chefs named above; no good describing them now – particularly on an empty stomach – but Gordon Ramsay wouldn’t shrink at bringing them to his tables. All the nine or ten dishes ranged between excellent and very good (apart from one station, whose proprietor took the approach that he would maximize the profits on his appearance fee by slicing food cost down to the bone). The bookend dishes – starter and closer – came from chef Michael Harrison, whose haddock-and-cod fish cake was excellent and the dessert of the night was – by a long, long shot – was Ashley Davis’ goats’ cheese cheesecake. I normally dismiss cheesecake as a dish that lessens the individual impact of all its components by combining them, but this one was wicked-good. She’s the British High Commissioner’s chef but all the other ambassadors will be eyeing her after last night; could be the start of a gastronomic international incident. Anyway it’s off to work again, today, the “Sunday Bajan Fiesta”, brunch dishes by another nine chefs, billed to be served from 12 midday to 3pm. It started promptly last year and went on much later, the chefs taking the view everyone else approved of that they weren’t taking food home. Apart from what now seems like the mandatory rainfall that makes parking on the open grass a challenge for anyone without four-wheel drive, there can’t be many better ways to spend a Sunday in Barbados; with all your clothes on, anyway.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:35:56 +0000
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