Vol. 41 — Nutmeg, Oil Down and the Spice Isle
Grenada
From St. George's to the spice hills of the interior
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A Caribbean kitchen shaped by spice — oil down bubbling slow with breadfruit and coconut, nutmeg grated into everything from punch to porridge, and reef-fresh seafood grilled under almond trees.
Chapter One
The Spice Isle and its one-pot heart
Grenada is small and green and improbably fragrant — nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and clove grow in the hills, and by the time you reach a village the air already smells of the kitchen.
The national dish is oil down: salted meat, breadfruit, callaloo, dumplings and turmeric-yellow coconut milk, simmered together in one heavy pot until the liquid is gone and every ingredient has taken on the flavour of the last.
In Grenada, spice isn't an accent — it's the room the meal happens in.
— Maison Maps journal
Chapter Two
Cocoa tea, reef fish and the long island afternoon
Breakfast is cocoa tea — hand-rolled Grenadian cocoa grated into hot water with cinnamon, nutmeg and bay leaf. It is more spice-cabinet than beverage, and it sets the tone for the day.
By lunchtime the beach vendors are grilling snapper and lambi over coals, roti stands are folding curry into fresh dough, and a rum shop somewhere is pouring the first Clarke's Court of the afternoon.
The Grenada poster — oil down, nutmeg, cocoa tea, roti, callaloo and the whole spice-island table.
Chapter Three
For the kitchen, the veranda and the spice-island table
Pieces designed for people who grate nutmeg by hand, keep a jar of cocoa balls in the cupboard, and understand that the best meals in Grenada come out of one pot and stretch across an entire afternoon.
Poster — St. George's
Poster — Grand Anse
Apron — Gouyave
Vol. 41 — Nutmeg, Oil Down and the Spice Isle — the pieces
Shop the Grenada pieces
Everything photographed in this issue that is currently in the studio.
The Collection
The Grenada Collection
Oil down, nutmeg, cocoa tea, callaloo, roti, saltfish souse and a pour of Clarke's Court — the fragrant, unhurried rhythm of the Spice Isle, illustrated in one composition.
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