Nyam & Trod Podcast: Drink & A Natter with JuicyChef

Jacqui turns the table around on her show's producer and dear friend, Diana O'Gilvie of Urban Sass Digital Solutions and puts her in the guest seat to discuss her career in production plus food & travel writing. Jamaican born, New York raised Diana shares tales of daily life on the magical island of Bali and it's fame as a spiritual retreat, a life threatening situation on Krakatoa and how a Chinese family "adopted" her on the ferry between Hong Kong and Taipei. They rave about their love for Scandinavia, praise Finnish style, sauna culture, and Diana's encounters with the indigenous Sami people of Lapland. They delve into their travel styles, the merits of long vacations, staycations and mini breaks. Diana shares the shifts she has observed as a writer in the travel space over the years, her upcoming TV productions, dream of sharing more visual narratives from Caribbean women and forging future links with West Africa. This is the final episode of Season 1, Season 2 drops in March 2021. Drink of the episode: JuicyChef's Sorrel Lemonade

JuicyChef converses with dear friend, Debra Taylor, known as the "Wine Lady Debra", one of Jamaica's top wine experts. Debra shares why people should not be intimidated by wine, the popularity of sparkling wines and exploring a range of wines to discover what your palate enjoys. Both are enthusiastic about the inclusion and expanding of wine vernacular to describe flavour profiles to entice new palates via familiar cultural language. They ponder if tourism or overseas travel has influenced the shift to wine drinking in the Caribbean region and whether local palates prefer old versus new world wine. Concerns are raised about climate change's influence on viticulture from harvest to production and less familiar wine regions. The ladies also joke about their proclivities for pairing posh wines with unexpected humble Jamaican dishes such as "bully beef and rice". Drink of the Episode: Pear & Rosemary Spritzer.

JuicyChef sits down at her home office desk with her friend, graphic designer Sarah Jackson who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her boutique design firm simply JIM-DANDY and has recently launched her passion project LadyBoss, an initiative to champion a woman's journey of being a boss, a LadyBoss...it is hers, to own and to celebrate. They break down graphic design versus graphic art, design solutions for clients in the age of Covid, finding inspiration in the "every day", future travel plans and making a great cup of coffee! Drink of the Episode: A rum based Manhattan.

JuicyChef and Lisa discuss Stush in the Bush's new line of South African inspired products from food to quilts, why Lisa no longer uses the word "picnic", how racial dialogues differ in the US and the Caribbean and why planting food soothes the soul. Drink of the episode features gin and Jamaican blackberry liqueur.