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Caribbean Food Culture
The world Kurma comes from.
Caribbean food is the taste of many homes meeting in one place. This is the culture our Kurma belongs to.
The food of the Caribbean is a record of everyone who has called the islands home. In Trinidad and Tobago especially, African, Indian, Indigenous, European and Chinese kitchens have met, borrowed and blended for generations, until the result belonged to nobody and everybody at once. Kurma is one small, delicious piece of that story.
A cuisine of many homes
When indentured labourers arrived from India in the 1800s, they brought spices, techniques and sweets with them. Over time those traditions met Caribbean ingredients and Caribbean life, and changed. Lighter. Brighter. Warmer. Kurma is exactly that kind of food: Indian in origin, and unmistakably Trinidadian in character.
Hospitality you can taste
More than anything, Caribbean food is generous. It is made to be offered, shared and enjoyed together, at Diwali and Christmas, at weddings and limes, or simply when someone stops by. A tin of Kurma on the table is a small act of welcome.
Quietly overlooked
For all its richness, much of this food has stayed close to the communities that make it, loved deeply, but rarely introduced to a wider audience. Not because it isn't good enough. Simply because no one had introduced it properly.
Some foods don't need reinventing. They simply deserve introducing properly.
Chungums
That's the work we've set ourselves: to share the warmth, the craft and the culture of Caribbean snacking, one beautifully made tub at a time.