Sylvia Hunt's Cooking : Trinidad and Tobago

The name Sylvia Hunt is synonymous with good cooking. As teacher, caterer and television personality she has for many decades been compiling, creating and collecting recipes that represent the cultural heritage of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

Her great love for the culinary traditions of the country has been manifest from an early age when, an only child, she joined her mother, Mrs. Miriam Dryce, in the family kitchen and learned to make her first sugar cake. She also had the good fortune to grow up close to an aunt, Mrs. Lydia Gittens, who specialised in old fashioned or traditional Home Economics, thus Sylvia Hunt was brought up with an appreciation of handiwork, from needlepoint to homemade wines.

This collection of recipes is a small part of the thousands of recipes she has created and collected in a lifetime dedicated to her country's cooking heritage.