Food and Everyday Life

Caribbean food shopping connected kitchens with traders, importers and neighbourhood meeting places. From a preserved tin of ackees to memories of Saturday markets, these histories reveal…

Jollof rice carries regional preferences, family memories and arguments about belonging. Its history connects West African cooking with travel, colonial records and diaspora gatherings, while the…

A cabinet of glasses, a radiogram and carefully made crochet could hold a household’s public face. Caribbean front rooms in Britain brought design, hospitality and family…