by Jackie Sayet

The reasons number many that I love my six visits a year to Grand Cayman my work permit permits.  Seeing my favorite people at the restaurant is a little kumbaya but, heck, it’s true.  Plus Cirillio, and in today’s case Tony, cook perfect 7 minute egg breakfasts and you don’t know what starting the day off right is until you’ve had one.  If only we had a breakfast place…   Then there’s the cocktails, like last night’s Rum Runners with Blackberry Brandy that Ryan and I had after riding around the West End in search of dinner.  Those drinks just don’t taste right unless you’re drinking them on a Caribbean Island, perhaps with your feet in powder beige sands, an aquamarine sea spread out before you to the horizon.  And then there are the sunsets.  It’s good to be home.

Ryan arrived Wednesday, Hedy and I yesterday (my earlier flight scored me this amazing sunset on 7 Mile Beach,) and she’s been baking up a storm this morning with our Cayman pastry chef Adriana Duran.  It’s cookbook launch time here, and the two quickly banged out 4x the Giant Sesame Fortunes recipe in order to demo them in stages for a Caymanian Compass web video.  Tomorrow’s (20) October Farm-to-Table Dinner celebrates Baking Out Loud in a big way with a sweet ending of treats from the cookbook. See menu attached.

This is the last of these dinners chef Thomas throws in honor of Cayman’s local farmers for the year, and we’re going out with a saweeeet bang, so come join us!  CI$50 per person (CI$45 for Slow Food Members) gets you four courses served family-style, CI $75 includes copy of the cookbook which Hedy will sign for you in-person, and a supplement of CI$40 per person brings beverage pairings.

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