For this episode, Musufing talks about the stuff Britain was largely built on, sugar. She explores the history of sugar from its raw plant beginnings in New Guinea to it's dark industrialised years that have left a deep gash that still weeps. In honour and recognition of enslaved people from then to now. Slavery must end!! Acknowledgements: The Guardian nationalarchives.gov.uk  Procede D'extraction Du Sucre de Bette by Franz Achard 1799 Chambers Biographical Dictionary smithsonianmag.com Uncovering britains Links to Slavery, University College London 2013 BBC History Magazine Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Wilfred Mintz 1985 Always No Copyright Music: Medieval Song Village Consort

The central themes of all my podcasts are heritage, history, culture and family. My mother and grandmother are my foundation stones and without them I could not do what I do. From language, Jamaican cooking, amazing stories and jokes, they are my original Miss Pearline, women who traveled from their homeland to work for many decades raising us and making Britain a better place. They also inspired Roast Breadfruit Reasoning as a concept of food, heritage and community. They both returned to Jamaica in the 90s where they still reside, we are thankful to be able to say. This podcast is from a radio show called FI WE MUSIK I produced and presented did for 7 years while living in the Gambia, initially for West Coast Radio and then for Paradise FM. I took my dusty microphone etc to Jamaica during granny's 90th birthday celebrations and recorded these beautiful women sharing their stories and favourite songs. Oh and can they sing!!! I hope you enjoy listening to mine and my family's diamonds and pearls

Roast Breadfruit Reasoning is about food, heritage, culture, history and food stories.  In this episode, Musufing talks about the cultural significance and history of the coconut tree in Jamaica and beyond. PLEASE NOTE during the coconut ice cream recipe I said place in the 'fridge' instead of the 'freezer' 🥶apologies

Miss Pearline is a feisty Jamaican senior and widow living out her years in the UK. In this episode, she attends a funeral with her bestie Dorothy, when they encounter some unwelcome attention from an old, old friend.  Miss Pearline is a tribute to Caribbean women and women from many nations who left their home countries to build the so-called first world.  Miss P asserts her right to be older, bolder and delivers her stories with added pimento and at times hot pepper sauce!  More sassy senior stories of this powerhouse Jamaican grandma to come