READER’S DIGEST...I’VE NEVER HAD A FIVE-YEAR
PLAN. Will there be a second series
of Caribbean Kitchen? I certainly
hope so, but I never know what’s
around the corner.
I want to keep healthy, though.
I still wake up in the morning and
run round the common with my dog,
diving on the floor with him like a
kid. I play my tennis, too and do
Pilates. If I can stay fit, I’ll be ready
for whatever my next challenge is. n
As told to Simon HemelrykAinsley’s Caribbean Kitchen airs on ITV1
from July 22. A book accompanying the
series is out nowseries, I was amazed how much they
rely on seasonal produce. I asked
someone for a mango in Tobago and
he replied [in a broad West Indian
accent] “Too late. It fall from the tree
two weeks ago.”
We’re so used to going to the
supermarket to get what you want,
when you want it, it was quite
refreshing to be somewhere where
you couldn’t. And when the seasonal
produce did come, boy, the taste
was fantastic. There’s a real
earthiness and joy.
It’s wonderful the way they go into
the sea to catch a fish and it’s so
opaque and so
delicate, because
it’s so fresh, too.
© BLUE MARLIN