Food

We are on oxtail and butterbeans countdown today. GF’s mum started prep on Thursday. It’s all in the seasonings, marinating, then an eight hour slow cook marathon the Guyanese 🇬🇾 method . There are no short cuts for this. Every morsel will be savioured with thanks.

Guyanese cuisine is supreme, across the West Indies and West Africa this dish is a much prized and lamented homemade dish. White folk rarely get to taste the real deal.

Just read this from Gina Yashere, absolutely on point.

Black people know how to cook meat better than anybody and I’ll tell you why. During slavery, when they were giving us the shittiest part of the meats, the offcuts after they’d eaten all the best parts of the animal, we turned that into deliciousness. The oxtail, cow foot, pig’s trotters: we turned that into a culinary delight.