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Maxine Hamilton
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Delicious By Design – Caribbean Food & Culture

I start off almost every meal with a cup of time. Mi doana care if it is morning, noon or night. Wait a minute Maxine you have it backwards…. Says who? I am very unorthodox when it comes to most things and the order in which I eat my food is no different except, mi neva go to a Jamaican restaurant and order Roti or Spaghetti & Meatballs, even when it is on the menu. Nor do I buy Jerk Chicken or Ackee & Saltfish in any place other than a Jamaican joint. Mi might not eat in the traditional order of tea after my entrée but doana ramp wid mi food. And….I eat food from practically every Caribbean Island. Mek me tell yuh, I enjoy that fried goat and rice and beans with plantains the Haitians make. Island food; it sweet fah so; lip smacking, finger licking delicious. What bring me to this… After my delightful surprise at For Goodness Steak recently I decide to check out some of the other things that are cooking in and around Brooklyn and share them with you. So here are some Caribbean spring things. Find a little sit down place, grab a plate an’ enjoy a meal then go take in one of these plays or stop in for a nightcap before you head on home after the play.

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Christopher Cum Buck Us, written by Patrick Brown, featuring: Oliver Samuels, Volier "Maffi" Johnson, Glen "Titus" Campbell, Claudette Pious and Dahlia Harris, Saturday, May 22, at 8:00 pm, at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts.

The New Hardware Store

When a black man named Ablack takes over a hardware store from a white man named Cherry not everyone is pleased with the changing face of pro-gress in this biting comedy on the downside of independence from Trinidadian playwright Earl Love-lace. Features: Lincoln Brown, Brie Eley, Rudolph Shaw; Monica Williams.

Three Shows: Friday, May 28, and Saturday 29 @ 8:00pm., Sunday, May 30 @ 4:00pm at the Community United Methodist Church, 126th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. For tickets call the Caribbean American Repertory Theatre, 718-974-6487.

Don’t forget, grab a plate somewhere …take care until the next article. One Love!

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