Hi, everyone, it's Carrie Diamond, host of Radio Cherry Bomb, coming to you for my apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

Our Jubilee Conference is less than two weeks away. I cannot believe it.

To celebrate, we're sharing one of my favorite Jubilee conversations, Padmalakshmi and Mother Joffrey from Jubilee

2019. They're introduced by Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau, the authors, restaurateurs, and tastemakers

from Jamaica. If you'd like to join us at Jubilee and you know we would love to see you,

you can get tickets at Cherrybaum.com. If you already have tickets, don't miss our Jubilee pregame on Wednesday, April 2nd at 3 p.m. E.S.T. That's this Wednesday. If you bought a ticket, the sign-up link is in your inbox. I'm hosting it with Donna Yen, our community director, and we'll be telling you everything you need to know to make the most of your Jubilee Day.

It's our first pregame ever, so don't miss it.

Enjoy Padma and Mother's chat and have a great day.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Hello, everybody.

In June, 1977, at the ages of five and seven, respectively, we moved from Kingston, Jamaica

to Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Trinidad was vastly different to Jamaica, yet still very familiar.

Up until that point, our life had been a series of birthday parties with donkey cart rides,

bun eating contests, tasty beef patties, Ribina, D&G cola champagne, Milo with loads of condensed milk,

along with warm grandmotherly hugs and an overabundance of friends, family and loved ones.

Moving to Trinidad was dramatic for us. We were isolated, friendless, with little contact to home and our family,

as we had no phone for the four years we lived there.

We were insiders and outsiders at the same time.

Our family's move triggered the explorer in us.

We became each other's companion and abandoned ourselves to a fantasy life that we believed real.

One that involved exploring gardens, seeking adventures, searching for fairies and magic,

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