last week, on our trek home from the gym, we stopped off at trinadad gourmet to give it a shot. dispite having to peek through the safety glass window to order, we had a nice conversation with the owner as our veg roti was being prepared. mr. owner gave us a sample of his homemade side sauces: green mango chutney, tamarind chutney, a medium habenero sauce, and a super hot habenero sauce.
the roti came out and was an amazing mountain of varied flavors that we took home and ooh'ed and ahh'ed as we dove in. super good eats and with a six buck price tag that can't be beat. 9.3/10.
this weekend we went down to the visionary arts museum. we browsed through the permanent collection, which has a series of quite moving pieces created from all untrained artists. the cornerstone piece being a carved apple tree limb that is fashioned into a tall thin man with shoulders that jet out and a spooned out chest. the narrative states that it was carved by a man who long suffered from tb and was made while in a rehabilitation facility. he had never been known to create any art previous to this piece.
much of the raw art at avam can be described as art therapy. each piece brings a sense of the creator straight into your being. it is accessible, it is real. not the pretentious canonical stuff that we're supposed to savor at a museum. the works at avam are unique and real.
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