A Taste of Manchester Sunday, May 19, 2024 Godfrey Lands, Mandeville “Thirty-seven years ago, when I came to Mandeville, there were a lot of English expats, lots of returning residents...
every time you went out for Kalooki, dominoes, other games like Backgammon, there was always ackee puffs and callaloo puffs. Puffs were the thing! And I used to really enjoy them because that’s something I knew very well from Trinidad. It’s in every pastry store in Trinidad.
.. So I felt right at home,” related Débè-Ann Lange-Chen, creative director, Cutting Edge Gourmet by Débè.
“I don’t see puffs anywhere else in Jamaica. I really don’t. I only see them here.
So since it’s a Taste of Manchester I figured that’s what we’d start with today.” On cue, servers emerged from the back of the house with a melange of Lange-Chen’s Trinidad-style puffs. ‘Taste of Manchester’, a specially curated culinary tour for Jamaica Observer Managing Director Dominic Beaubrun, Deputy Managing Director Natalie Chin-Samuda, Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards Chair Novia McDonald-Whyte and her judges, was underway! The scene? Cool, cool Mandeville (well, not so much these days) on a lush property in Godfrey Lands, Mandeville, in the same space where the Trinidadian-born chef has been sharing her culinary creations with her Jamaican family and friends for over 30 years.
“There’s no ackee and there’s no callaloo. We have cheese, salmon, chicken, and ham. Each one has a dif.
