Wiser With Age

Tag: immigrant story

  • Cooking With Granny: Grandma Louisa’s Trinidadian hot sauce

    Cooking With Granny: Grandma Louisa’s Trinidadian hot sauce

    Trinidadian Grandma Louisa making hot sauce while Caroline wears goggles to protect her from the pepper's heat!
    Trinidadian Grandma Louisa making hot sauce while Caroline wears goggles to protect her from the pepper’s heat!

    Grandma Louisa’s hot sauce is pure fire. And I like to say, if you need protective gear to cook, then count me in. It must be extraordinary. And it is. This hot sauce contains 135 (!!!) Scotch bonnets, four types of peppers, exotic fruits like pickled mangoes and gooseberries, and some other weird little ingredients that I never saw coming. And to bring this special hot sauce from Trinidad and Tobago to Caribbean, Brooklyn, Grandma Louisa had to undergo a whole lot of hardships that life threw her way. Watch this episode, and learn something delicious from Granny!

    CarolineShin-150x150Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny” – a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.

  • Cooking With Granny: Grandma Lumen’s Filipino purple yam pudding

    Cooking With Granny: Grandma Lumen’s Filipino purple yam pudding

    Filipino Grandma Lumen
    Filipino Grandma Lumen

    Grandma Lumen left the Philippines to become a public school teacher in the Bronx for more than 15 years. But she never forgot the family recipe for her favorite Filipino dessert, ube halaya, or purple yam pudding. This woman is just one fantastic person whose poise and influence shine at the Philippine Consulate where it seemed like just about everyone knew her.

    So sit back and enjoy this episode! Also, as you watch this video, if you have any questions for Grandma Lumen, let us know!

    CarolineShinCaroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny” – a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.