thank you for flying with us and welcome
to dc on a quick trip to dc
whether you've been exercising your
glutes on the longest
escalators in the hemisphere
or exercising your first amendment
rights
eventually you're going to want to break
i've been a journalist for a really long
time and the best part of political
writing
is being somewhere in america
and talking to a bunch of people about
things that they care about
and then you know getting some good food
somewhere
wow look at that i'm digging into that
thing
before moving to dc to cover national
politics
jada spent a year traipsing the globe
writing travel articles for the new york
times
that at least five of your friends
forwarded to you
she's on the road a lot and always has
an eye out for new places to eat
basically everywhere i land i punch in
every recommendation on a google map
did you want me to say that whenever i
land in an airport i
open up eater well only if you really
made it
i mean it's true okay jada that's some
journalistic integrity right there
as jada can tell you dc has some really
good trini food
and it came you gotta start with the
wings
all right that's really good that's
delicious
these are uh our jerk wings
jerk wings are traditionally uh jamaican
as well
the spices came from their aboriginal
people but a lot of escaped slaves used
to use it to
preserve meats you know if you're on the
run it's like the perfect food
they're smoked for three hours
after a 24 hour marinade we finish our
wings with our smoked butter
it turns out to be really delicious
those are drip wings
peter had been perfecting that 24-hour
marinade for years
before teaming up with his sister to
open cane
and here on h street peter and janine
offer up a menu
full of the foods they grew up eating in
trinidad and tobago these are pickled
vegetables that we pickle in house
some hot peppers this is a snap rest of
each
we often have people come and say
they've never
they've never had anything like this and
they say every time they come to dc
this is going to be a stop that they
have to make
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the cane sour which is a new cocktail
this drink is really centered around
angostura bitters
so it's a new addition to the rum
flights which a lot of folks
like to come try with friends
instead of waiting for the drink cart to
voiced over one tiny bottle of booze up
in the air
dip into a flight of rum before you fly
and sample these goods from the west
indies
the name cane is a nod to all this rum
they're pouring up behind the bar
and to the history of the sugarcane
industry trinidadian food
became this unique entity because of the
unique combination of people that
matured at their home the african slaves
worked the land the indian
laborers from india stayed there they
brought their cooking techniques their
flavors
there is sort of a style of indian food
that's uniquely
trinidadian and caribbean and the spice
blend is
just really unique the indian influence
and those layered flavors are featured
in kane's tiffin lunchbox
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these tins are still a popular way to
carry lunch in
india and the west indies today all
right guys so we're gonna build our
tiffin
in this tower of tin flaky fried paratha
is the base layer for a stack of curries
okay on the second floor we've got
chicken
upstairs eggplant tomato chocos and up
top
slow cooked tender beef you know you
need to get in with the bread
everybody has their own technique you
make the perfect bite whatever your
perfect bite is
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wash down all that spice with a lot of
rum
and you'll be feeling good by takeoff
time