Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly Farley Augustine chats with Calypso Rose aka Linda McCartha Sandy-Lewis on August 19 in Brooklyn, New York, as she holds a plaque in her honour from the Tobago Empowerment and Alliance Mission (TEAM).
TEAM honoured Rose as part of its Tobago Day celebration which was highlighted on August 18 in the courtyard of the Nazareth High School, 475E 57th Street, Brooklyn, New York. The event featured various elements of Tobago’s cultural heritage: music, dance and food.
Augustine addressed the celebration. He was accompanied by a contingent comprising THA officials, tourism stakeholders and several of Tobago’s leading artistes.
(Source: Newsday, August 28, 2024)

Traditional sponge with lime meringue frosting
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 cups granulated sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour
5 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
¾ cup milk
2 tsp vanilla essence
Measure all your ingredients and set them aside.
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Cut your butter into chunks and place into your mixing bowl, make sure that your butter is very cold, you can use frozen butter. Add your sugar and start the creaming process, cream your butter and sugar until light in texture and colour, take your time here, use your fingers to feel the mixture to determine whether your sugar has dissolved.
Now add your eggs one at a time, beating well between additions.
You must incorporate your eggs slowly, and your mixture should be light and fluffy before you add another egg. If your mixture is somewhat loose and rather eggy, or appear curdled, you must beat a little more.
Measure your flour and sift three times.
Combine the milk with vanilla.
Now add your flour in three additions, folding in the flour alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour.
Prepare 2 nine-inch cake pans: grease the sides, line the base with waxed paper, grease your paper and flour the pans. Shake out any excess flour.
Spoon the batter evenly into cake pans, and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until the cakes pull or shrink away from the sides of the pan.
Do not open your oven door during baking or your cakes will fall.
Remove cakes from oven, cool in pans for five minutes, then invert onto cooling racks, remove lining and place right side up.
Lime meringue frosting
1 cup granulated sugar
2 egg whites
⅓ cup water
⅛ tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp lime zest
With an electric mixer, beat egg whites until fluffy but not dry. add cream of tartar.
Combine sugar with water, stir gently to combine, place in a small saucepan and bring to a boil, boil sugar until bubbly and spins a thread when lifted from a fork.
Poor syrup into egg whites with mixer running, add lime zest, continue to beat until all the syrup has been incorporated, beat for a few minutes longer until mixture loses some of its gloss.
Frosts 2 nine-inch cakes. (Source: Wendy Rahamut via Newsday, Aug 31, 2024)