Dasheen Takes Centre Stage At Tobago’s Blue Food Festival
October 19, 2026
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The Blue Food Festival continues to impress patrons with the innovation and creativity of Tobagonian cooks who utilise dasheen as the main ingredient for countless dishes, pastries and drinks.
At every corner of the Bloody Bay Recreation Ground on Sunday, dasheen was on display in countless forms: dasheen black cake, dasheen pholourie, dasheen ice cream and dasheen punch.
Kervin Horsford, also known as Harvest Gawd, was one of the many chefs who prepared several dishes with dasheen as the main ingredient, all accompanied by other ground provisions and wild meat.
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