Everybody asked me if I got any doubles in Germany, well for the record, I didn't see any doubles vendors in Nuremberg. In fact, I didn't see any Trini food on display.
I went to the Tourism Board's booth after the game but I didn't see any trace of any Trini food. I heard there was Trini food in Dortmund, but those reports are yet to be confirmed. Frankly, I believe a lot of Trinidadian companies missed a trick, especially companies like Angostura. Imagine that Trinidad and Tobago is getting the most press it has ever gotten in the United Kingdom yet no one felt it was right or even sensible to organise a trade event here?
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What is it with Germans and salt?? Don't they understand how to use herbs and spices to add flavour to their food? Almost everything I ate in Germany tasted like a Saxa table salt overdose.
I wonder if this is a new phenomena because when I last visited Germany some seven years ago, I didn't have this problem. Maybe my taste buds have matured?
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For the last month my life has been dominated by the 2006 World Cup and Trinidad and Tobago's participation in that esteemed tournament. I was consumed by writing articles, doing interviews and making radio features about the saga of the Soca Warriors, but that's not to say my mind wasn't on things gastronomic.
Since Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the World Cup last year, the crew's been planning to party hard in Germany - how could we be living in England and not hop over to Germany to wave the red, white and black? I didn't think it would be right for the crew to head over to Germany without a warm-up so I got the ball rolling with a small bram a couple of days before football's biggest party kicked off.
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I was rather surprised to receive an email last week congratulating Can Cook, Must Cook on being one of the top ten food blogs on the web. It's good to see that my random musings about food are interesting to so many other people. The email came from Sabah Karimi of the Associate Content website. Have a look at Sabah's article: The Top Ten Foodie Blogs on the Web and you'll see that we're in some pretty good company!