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You haven’t experienced a glitter explosion until you’ve turned your back on a five-year-old and an art spinner. If you don’t know what an art spinner is, you probably need one in your life. You pop some paper into a spinning wheel, set it in motion,...

The spices are the secret to a great gumbo. This was the word from Odinga Hodgson, Bermuda’s newly crowned Gumbo king. Mr Hodgson won the designation last week at a gumbo cook-off designed to raise money for local students to attend the African Heri...

Top chef Odinga Hodgson took the prize at this weekend’s first annual African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference Cook-Off. Colin Lloyd took second place at Saturday’s event, which featured gumbo, a classic Louisiana dish. The competition, held in Ha...

Growing up in Guatemala, healthy eating came naturally for cook Norma Thomson. As a youngster, she spent summers with her grandmother in a rural part of the country and would often go shopping at the local markets for fresh produce. In those days, t...

Who wouldn’t want to eat a tasty fish sandwich, to help out the environment? That’s the argument being made by organisers of the Groundswell Lion Fish Tournament 2013. They are encouraging people to start off their day on Saturday, July 20, by catch...

I was never very good at physics but I do wish I had paid more attention in school. I just remember thinking that I couldn’t imagine any of it being useful in REAL LIFE — cue an enormous teenage sigh and exaggerated roll of the eyes. If only I had kn...

After hearing Dr Robert Lustig’s recent lecture for the Bermuda Diabetes Association about the connection between obesity and food additives, many people went home and threw out everything with high fructose corn syrup and sugar on the label. Dr Lust...

Supergranny has just flown home and it’s time to clean up! Don’t get me wrong, the house has been pristine — literally sparkling — with her in it. If I hadn’t seen our family tree, I would suspect she was related to Mary Poppins. Whereas I have a ten...

The main aim of this article is to recognise where our food is coming from, not to tell you that you must or must not buy something, but just to let you be aware. Ever been to the grocery store and bought some apples? A pear and banana too? Ever tho...

“Mummy,” said Chloe, with as much gravity as a five-year-old can muster, “I know babies come OUT of the birth canal, but how do they get IN?” Ah, I said, and having promised myself that I would never be an ask-your-father kind of mother, I told her t...

There’s not much cake designer Jamie Carmichael can’t create in his kitchen — whether it’s a cake in the shape of famed rapper Rick Ross’ head or one modelled after an exclusive Louis Vuitton handbag. Only four years ago he would have declared himse...