A Colombian film crew visited T&T from June 16 to 24 as part of their Afrodiaspora Cuisine Investigation Project to investigate and explore connections across the African diaspora through food.
Researcher Igor Correa, chef/researcher Rey Guerrero, Lina Guerrero, and producer Claudia Peláez worked with T&T’s Idakeda Group (Idakeda), a cultural organisation that focuses on empowering through culture, heritage and the arts.
Miss Universe 1977 Janelle “Penny” Commissiong was a specially invited participant in the local leg of the project which was spearheaded by Idakeda’s managing director Dara E Healy.
The crew’s itinerary included spiritual African legacy tours of some Port-of-Spain sites and the Ile Isokan (House of Unity) in lower Santa Cruz led by Baba Ogunbowale, where they sampled food customarily served at spiritual events.
