One is expected to eat a doubles the same way as one would a ripe mango; its liquids escaping your mouth and caressing your fingers as you savour the satisfying
By Ramin Ganeshram 27 May 2021
When I visited my father s Caribbean home of Trinidad & Tobago from our New York base, I d trail behind him as he walked the streets and byways of his youth. Most exciting were the stops he made at street food vendors, who hawked everything from peppered fruits to peanuts and spiced chickpeas, hand pies stuffed with seasoned potato, and shaved iced cones liberally doused with fruit syrups and sweetened condensed milk.
But of these offerings only one was the indisputable king: doubles. It s the street food of the twin island nation that emerges as a jewel
Doubles is a humble sandwich made from curried chickpeas tucked between two pieces of fried flat bread and dressed in tamarind and coriander sauces, mango chutney,