#26 - Romaine Newell | Itching To Cook & A Mango Tree
Food Is Culture | A Podcast
English - May 16, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture Kids & Family Stories for Kids canadian food stories culture cultures around the world ethnic recipes traditions ethnicities family stories food food traditions foodie Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today’s chef cooks a wide spread of cuisines and is well travelled and is from one of the world’s most beautiful places. Hailing from Jamaica private chef Romaine Newell is warm, fun, extremely knowledgeable and guys… his food is beautiful. Listening to him speak you understand his love of ingredients and food.
I love his story of being in the kitchen watching his grandparents cook and couldn’t help himself from getting involved.
Romaine brings up such a good point about Thai food leaning itself to vegan cooking and I never thought of that. If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while you know I am trying to incorporate more meatless meals and talking Thai has me itching to get into the kitchen and whip up some dishes.
Jerk Pork (and festivals) is one of my favourite dishes. As a kid I spent a lot of time in Jamaica. Negril is one of my dad’s favourite places and we went yearly when I was young. I now love jerk pork and jerk chicken. But an early favourite of mine as a kid was coco bread with cheddar cheese. I have this vivid memory of being about 3 or 4 walking along the beach with my dad and getting to the beach side cafe. Their floor was painted concrete and cool on the feet. I have this memory of not being able to see over the laminate counter, my dad handing me the warm coco bun and the smell of the slightly warmed cheddar filling my nose. The cheese was never a slice, it was a huge hunk of cheese right in the middle but I loved it. Washed down with some Ting. That memory is truly a happy place for me. Something I like to recreate every once in a while at home. Minus the beach, unfortunately.
I hope you’ll enjoy my chat with Romaine, cheers!
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