Here in the Caribbean we celebrate our rich and diverse Heritage every day in every partt so usually on my days off I like to stay at home watch Netflix and you know just relax and take it easy but you know I feel like I just do that so
Often and you know this life is just passing me by so I decided to link up with FIA from inseason tours and she’s actually going to take me on a mini food tour of Tran Tobago we’re going to hit up some spots that I’ve never been
Before and I’ve lived in Trad for you know so many odd years all my life and it’s time to get out of my comfort zone and see this country so let’s go so morning everybody I’m here with Emily as you heard she’s actually going
To go on a tour today so we’re going to do a little bit of eating a little bit of sightseeing and then um see how she enjoys her time off yeah Em going to get educated good just one question though have you ever been passy
Lighthouse um yes to film the show is it that that’s not true that’s not true anybody who knows me knows that I have family in south or my half of my family is from South so of course I’ve been Lighthouse however I don’t go there as often as I probably should have the
Average sharan um as I’m think it’s not like it’s this like some kind of you know some people think it is th no but I I am not one of those honestly I go south to eat something anyway but I’m excited to see even more of it cuz South is more than
Just uh obscure please can you this is this is sounding horrible also have fireworks you never know when you’re going to need a fireworks sparkl on top of your cake so we always have to have these on Deck oh my God they also double as great flares
So if we’re in an emergency situation like too much Rosy pick me up we got it sorry I have all this crap my mouth I had a shower Cup on so ratchet but you filming all this all right time to go right so Emily we are it’s what time
It’s pretty early in the morning I think we need to get some breakfast to start the day yes and what do you usually have for breakfast um usually have maybe a smoothie or I have like toast and eggs mhm or I’m I’m don’t discriminate like I could have food for breakfast too right
There’s if there’s good enough leftover food I’ll eat that as well you know it’s pretty much I always have a cup of coffee which I had already so okay um yeah well we’re actually going to be having breakfast in Porter Spain downtown just like all the people who
Commute every day to work or come off a shift and they have to go downtown to get something to eat or they’re passing through so we’re going to be with all these people it’s going to be exciting apparently I’m not going to tell you where we’re going yet apparently where
We’re going has a bomb spread and we eating no we’re not drinking no smoothies this morning we’re going to eat like food food yeah well I love meom sprad so I’m excited like you I try to keep it healthy really healthy um I try to avoid
All the cowb juice the heavy bakes and whatever but there are days where I really just want to have a nice bake and saltfish like the bake has to be coconut bake not coconut flavored Bak coconut bake with chunks of coconut you know or shredded coconut that I can actually I
Have to actually go on a floss after I eat like a crunchy yes it has to have that texture and some saltfish to go with it but the funny thing is you know a lot of people don’t even know the where saltfish came from do you know how
You where soulfish came from like how we started yeah how we started eating sfish well the thing is with soulfish is that um you know soulfish is found all over the world um and it was obviously because of people traveling especially the Portuguese in terms of coming to the
Caribbean the Portuguese came and while they were traveling to tr and traveling around the region um they would pack allfish on the boats um because it was a it was preserved fish and um easy to cook and they would actually feed the slaves well not not all these ships not
That I know of but from what I’ve read and heard um people talk about they would feed these slaves that way um and then you know you have things like Acra which actually is West African mixed with Portuguese because in West Africa in Benin especially Benin Ghana um and I
Think Sagal there is actually a dish called akara mhm and it’s actually akara and akara is a vegetarian dish um it’s like a ball made with um black ey peas M and so you have that influence with the Portuguese bringing the salted cod so when you put it together you have Acra
Got it right so you know we when we say we a Melting Pot we really are a melting Potter a lot of the ingredients for um the food that we eat today came from them only having so little to work with yeah um and getting it from there from
The slave masters from the plantation owners so we just had to kind of use what we were given um hence the aara right so I kind of hope that they have Acra this morning to be honest like I like Acra for breakfast me too I like Acra in general in general so for
Breakfast and CH if there’s ACA I’ll e It So that’s a fried bake with smok Caron and planting and a um coconut baked whole wheat with planting and Tall fish and slight pepper yeah car bloated yeah but your is so much more healthy than mine and we have PR PR I know I always get excited when we start off these
Things anything is the bake the the actual bake the coconut bake even though it’s whole wheat is as big as their face right so I feel like to go easy we have a long way to go guys so you got smooth hairen and planting and pled on Friday
Look at this goodness soulfish planting mhm m breakfast is started so good I am full I know I very satisfied so good I mean it really was a good breakfast I think the all fish was perfect um it really woke us upo the bake also kind of
Tast it had like kind of bar texture So Soft I’ll have the fry B next time all right so we’re going to go to our next stop yeah we’re going to the Mount now Mount St Benedict have you been when was the last time you went Emily actually I
Had a uh my grandmother’s uncle was a priest living in Mount St Benedict um but he passed away like L year when I was 7 years old or something like that and um I haven’t been up since so um I’m eer to check that out and kind of just
See it from an adult perspective Mountain Benedict was actually opened up by three priests back in the early 1900s and um yeah it’s they actually it’s a monastery up there and there’s also a rehab center there’s a a hotel a mini bed and breakfast called P guest house
Which a lot of um bird watchers from abroad they come and they stay up there because they get a lot of birds going to Parks okay for some OD reason I think they have a couple feeders but I think just maybe even the height and how it’s
Surrounded by all the trees and what have you so you have a lot of bird washers to PK’s guest house and PK’s guests are actually host they have tea on afternoon oh really yep nice so there we go the Mount St Benedict the mount um was established Mountain Benedict was
Established or the ABY was established in 1912 it’s about 250 acres of land 1912 W it feels like it’s older yeah and there’s the um this is church there they actually just finished I don’t know if you can see how high up we are yeah so nice too and the view is
Magnificent and the good thing about here is that it’s open to the public and it’s free so people sometimes come here during lunchtime or they come here after work just to get some peace um they come and they eat lunch I’ve seen families actually come and bring like a full
Spread and just enjoy the Ambiance the only thing is I tell people all the time you have to be very respectful in fact that it’s a place of worship so you know you can’t bring no music and you just come here looking for like some tranqu
Cuz it say I just read the um the bo there with all the information I said that how the Benedictine monks they um The Virtue that they embody is peace packs which is Latin for peace um so which is which is great it’s nice to have P like this I know Benedictine
Monks you know the the The Lure benedic there’s a that’s made by the Benedictine mons in in France sh chuse chuse but the thing is the thing is um I think that’s what it is called yes you’re quite right yeah the thing is about is that yeah when you come here
The only you can get is p you see how as I told you you see how are like they are act treats up here and they put them up here purposely cuz to get back down is a hell of a work yeah cuz it’s
PX um and it was started in 1997 by I think a guy named father Sandy mhm he and his business partner they actually passed away in 2017 made the recipe of of course they left the the recipe the secret recipe with somebody else and they now make yogurt and yogurt drinks
Mhm so they make um I think the yogurt flavors they have um my favorite I think a lot of people love is the Almond mhm they have passion fruit they have strawberry they have sour sa um vanilla yeah the passion fruit is lovely they have vanilla they have quite a few quite
A few um flavors so we’re going to have some it’s so nice though yeah just so nice with wish sometimes you just like I wish I could just pop my phone as well it’s the real deal no set of preservatives or anything yeah they talk
About a lot on their website and how you can use it they tell you exactly how they create the yoga they tell you about um what the ingredients so if you are leged anything or what’s up you can go and check what the ingredients are as
Well as to give you tips on using on your face so you could use your the the the original packs you good as sensitive skin right here exactly flowless skin you know so um fun fact though about me I remember there’s a time I wanted to become well not wanted
To but I was like I wonder if I have to become a nun if that’s my vocation right so I was like you know I would definitely come up here and open a frozen yogurt place using the P FR PX yogurt and call it holy Cow frozen
Yogurt that sounds you should you should go PR it right now if anybody takes my idea just cut me my check one time we have this time stabed oh Jesus we both got the yogurt drink so they have um they have the yogurt and they also have the drink and I got my
Favorite almond you got gu Gua so let’s try it out so CH to breakfast number two as you said cleanser all right Mhm m a scker thicker than a [Laughter] snickle this actually tast really good though this is yummy this is actually delicious what kind of sour up is that a holy sour up sourour no that that sour so tasting different this is from Jesus this is so Different so we’re at the temple sea which is in watero and um it was first built the first temple was actually built by a devout um Hindu by name of sudas SAU and he built it on um a Sugar Factory well sugar company’s land so
What happened is that it was in his land so they actually demolished it oh my gosh but he was so determined to build a temple so he ended up looking for a space very close to the SE yeah which is where we are now and this one man with
His one bicycle took 25 years to build a temple CL CC and it’s spectacular now this isn’t the finished his his work but the government what they did is that they actually in 1985 they actually built this temple in his honor um so yeah this is where we are now it’s a
Beautiful well we went in and it’s gorgeous and it’s very calming just like the mount yes um very very very calming it’s a cremation side as well um anybody can come in here they have opening hours think it opens at 8:00 in the morning it
Said 600 to 6 6 to 6 okay good so kind of sun ups and sun down correct cuz the sunset here is extraordinary um so you can come in you can relax you can walk around um um and it’s just a nice place to just go if you’re in central yeah I
Know people come here for for to go to Deb and that kind of thing but you know you can make us a pit stop here and just kind of relax and then go and eat yourself into aoma exactly so this beautiful sign here just CAU my eye
Anytime I see these You Know This Acronym boom boom boom it’s just got to come in so let’s try it she’s going to have the chicken I I passed so on the way to Temple and you see I saw a sign that said they orinal fresh fried chicken and the origin
Exactly I heard from a couple of sources that this place is worth the tribe never really in this area so and I’m a friy chicken not corn but a l them mhm um I’m ready to try this show them what the chicken looks like I feel like I’ve never seen some it looks
Very H me but you can see the seasoning that’s what I love about it’s nice and fresh it smells really good though you not like chicken it’s smelling real nice see are you sure you don’t want I’m fine I’m good okay fine what do you like enjoy enjoy how is it it’s
Delicious not even joking what hell it tastes like a mix K Castle the skin isn’t as properly but that’s okay the flavor is is actually really there nice to meet hi AIA nice to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet you I’m what we doing here going and get
Some B right best best up of the line ho in the wall best that’s right sign of good food s 23 on walk so we’re going to try we’re at home the nights on Prince Albert Street oh my God looking s about to try the cowhill
To and I got the breadfood oil down with some Caro so good and Emily what’s this here super b m and I have orange and grapefruit juice right here and I went Mor it’s a reusable Str reusable Str cuz you know see have the pool of this woo T good
Wow no this is really nice it is M it’s good mhm mhm this is so like this is actually M Montana too what please don’t K is really nice mhm this is oil on you tried it mhm I but good recommendation Kon well done K
Good job good job well done K you’re not eating anything though what going on N but I sucking on some M right now yeah yeah yeah yeah just get out the hand there’s one in South I don’t know about the one in South but for me now when it comes to
Doubles I don’t want no doubles out box my doubles Fry on the spot telling you on the SP how to fry on the spot and the only way this tastes good is with a foot over a drain yeah you w that dou and spoil had to be over a drain for your dou
Eat I’m not a big morning doubles person yeah morning doubles M I know I kind of kill the vibe right there but but speaking my truth my my thing with with doubles is not so much everything in the doubles is is is supposed to be consistent right you see you see bar
Consistency for me oh very important is 70% of your doues right bar consistency is 70% Your CH boilage yeah that that that is important as well your flavoring on your chn it can’t be too greeny can’t or oh split split split split split CH thank you
This is not like 98 18 something they were making doubles and putting it in a making CH put in a cone no no no no no we passed that 2019 that didn’t happen in 18 something I when I was growing up start challing exactly 18 something what she’s
Seeing now you walk into that walk into that exactly for the recommendation food was great absolutely worth it that bread good was sweet it was soft it was scrum Liam yes scrum Li yeah next time you out let me know I we pick our next our next location anytime
Anytime anytime fine nice to meet you sorry bless Boom the Weise hello Chef hello hi chef em Emily Barry nice to meet you AIA nice to meet you AIA how you going nice to meet you too this is my space it’s byi so this is my little cave it’s great this is awesome
So that’s the Sichuan spash cup which is a winner must say stuff so I do six spot CS okay I nrow it down to six spatcock six different flavors sichan Peruvian spatcock jerk spatcock Buffalo spatcock garlic herb spatcock and one more o Louise what’s what’s the fourth one fifth one the sixth one
Tanduri oh tanduri spat um so it’s six yeah um I have included my Spice Bomb Asian pepper oil in the marinade so you get those flavors coming through as well right um it took a lot of experimenting to get the right texture to get the juiciness to get the right flavor but um
You’ll see when you taste it afterwards um the six fash coocks I do so far I’ve been offering it cooked um and that’s been going great but I thought it’ll be also convenient if you can have it frozen raw vacuum packed this for example is the Sichuan full chicken and literally just
Put it in submerged in water for 30 minutes and it’s totally defrosted into the oven a nice color and then finish them in the um it could be a was a nice Crch please take the camera off when I intim moment my please try the Peruvian sauce which cuz sour fries a lot as well yeah so so I mean my knife went through that so easily was like I was like no I mean like that wow like that it literally
Comes off and the juice is amazing got s wow amazing um I used to do some caterings in New York when I was there mhm um but I’m getting old so I just do stuff that I enjoy cooking as opposed to being ask can I make this can I make
That l l is really great hand for me in kitchen a great job here thank you L yes thank you you’re great so we’ve made it back home safe and sound driving up and down Tran tobo today and it has been exactly what I wanted day off to be it
Was fun it was enlightening it was relaxing it was delicious most of all and thank you so much AIA for taking me pleasure everywhere with you if you want to go on a tour with AIA you can check her out inseason tours limited she does Food Tours all across CH Tobago and she
Is a wealth of knowledge she’s a National Treasure to be honest with you I appreciate it but I think um they can check me out on on IG in season tours um and you can also check me out on the website ww ww. inseason tours.com and or
Either email me at info info@ inseason tours.com as well but thank you for having me today I mean you could have been home and we went out we had a great time I am home but I also have done so much you know it was a full day and it
Was very enriching day I’m happy yes and you can also check out AIA on her new Sean on eats of Food Channel which is called food travel yes so stay tuned for that and it’s always always always a pleasure having you all with me and I will see you guys next time bye
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