Kamille D. WhittakerJun 131 minExcerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped an...
Kamille D. WhittakerJan 261 minDerek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as PrayerLove After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will...
Kamille D. WhittakerDec 29, 20191 minRecipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup JoumouSoup Joumou, also known as the Haitian Independence Soup, is a hearty pumpkin (or squash) soup that is traditionally served on January 1...
Kamille D. WhittakerDec 1, 20190 minA Celebration of Parang: The Indigenous Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago
Kamille D. WhittakerSep 6, 20191 minBefore.The first text I dashed off to my mom and brother right before I walked in to the Goombay Festival for Junkanoo was "I am Bahamian now." ...
Kamille D. WhittakerJun 23, 20190 minSummer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"
Kamille D. WhittakerFeb 4, 20192 minAntigua BluesEvery Sunday night in Antigua’s English Harbor, where hundreds of boats are scattered but docked, the steel pan drums lead the way; sound...
Kamille D. WhittakerJan 30, 20193 minNatural Wonder: Three Days of Wellness in ArubaAruba is rugged and vibrant – decadent in some places and quiet when it needs to be. There’s the healing sun, sand and sea and there’s al...
Kamille D. WhittakerOct 15, 20184 minWellness Retreats: Moving in the Direction of HealingLately, I've been burning some incense that I was gifted by the ila spa in Antigua … I still carry with me the words my therapist spoke t...
Kamille D. WhittakerOct 5, 20181 minAntigua: "If You Say That I'm Free, Then I'm Free"I was asking the grounds manager at Betty's Hope, reportedly the first and largest sugar mill and plantation in Antigua, about the appren...
Kamille D. WhittakerSep 18, 20182 minTry This: How Grenada's Spice Market Inspired My 'Turmeric Salve' ConcoctionOne of my main objectives when I visited the "Spice Island" of Grenada was to return with a haul of seasonings and spices. At Grenada's S...
Kamille D. WhittakerJul 13, 20181 minFinal Day in Barbados: Bussa's RebellionVery early in the text “Intellectual Warfare” the late Jacob Carruthers wrote about how Jamaican-born Dutty Boukman made his way to Haiti...
Kamille D. WhittakerJul 13, 20181 minDay Two in Barbados: Oistins EverydayNo, it wasn't Friday night, but yes, we were "liming" at Oistins, on a Thursday while the sun was high. The selection: Fried Flying Fish ...
Kamille D. WhittakerJul 11, 20181 minDay One: Beautiful BarbadosRegrettably, I didn't take many (any?) pictures of the Barbados countryside and towns when I visited seven years ago. So, I have had to d...
Kamille D. WhittakerJul 9, 20182 minRecipe: Sofrito + Arroz Con PolloEver since my travels to the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, and my frequenting of Atlanta's best Colombian food restaurant (Las Delic...
Kamille D. WhittakerMay 13, 20182 minNotes on "Going Home"I grew up between parched Southern Cali suburbs and maternal and paternal immediate and extended family in Jamaica. I was exposed to rura...
Kamille D. WhittakerMay 13, 20183 min"Up Country": Bois Content, Jamaica"Oh, let's go back to the start." We are, and have always been, on African time. The practice of mourning infused with the celebration of...
Kamille D. WhittakerMay 6, 20183 minSet Apart In St. BarthThere are some travels that change you. Some change the way you measure time, space, even distance. Others recalibrate your senses, birth...
Kamille D. WhittakerMay 6, 20183 minGoldenEye: "The Peace And The Drama"My mother’s family hails from Bois Content, Jamaica in the hills north of Old Harbour Bay, on the South Coast of the island. My father li...