Articles Archive for May 2009
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It’s berry picking season in some parts of the world now and to make berry picking more fun, we have a look at what a berry is. In botanical terms, a berry is a fleshy …
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Blackcurrants are the edible berries of a shrub known as Ribes Nigrum – it has a 1cm diameter, is black in colour, has a calyx at the top and a glossy skin and it contains …
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Daiquirí is a beach near Santiago in Cuba and legend has it that it was invented in 1905 in a bar called Venus that was about 23 miles east of the mine by a group …
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This dessert is for those of you that want to cook something special for your significant other but haven’t got the time or the inclination to spend hours in the kitchen, nor do you want …
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Barak Obama has recently backed Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic in the history of the United States of America to be come a Supreme Court judge. The event wasn’t given as much publicity …
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Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb by Gordon Ramsey
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In the north of Eleuthera Island in the Crooked Island district, the pineapple industry is booming and most of the production is taken up locally for eating and drinking purposes. Pineapples aren’t only delicious, they’re …
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Rum is distilled from sugar cane and the word itself is quite probably derived from the last three letters of the latin saccharum, meaning sugar. Most of the world’s rum is produced in the Caribbean where …
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In Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, on their way home to Italy, encounter a violent storm. Everyone jumps overboard and are washed ashore on a strange island inhabited …
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Nassau, on Providence Island, is the political capital of the Bahamas – the history of the town goes back hundreds of years to the times when pirates used the harbour to escape the law. Blackbeard, …


