And welcome to D.

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On a quick trip to D.

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Whether you've been exercising your glutes on the longest escalators in the hemisphere or exercising your First Amendment rights, eventually you're gonna wanna 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, that I'm digging into that thing before moving to D.

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To cover national politics.

Jay has spent a year traipsing the Globe riding 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 landed in airport, I open up, Peter?

Well, only if you really made it.

Hey, maybe that's true.

Okay, Jada, that's, um, journalistic integrity right there.

Jada Comptel.

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Has some really good Trinny food on it came.

You've got to start with the wings.

Oh God, that's really good.

That's delicious.

These are drink wings.

Jerk wings are traditionally 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 want to run, it's like the perfect food.

They're smoked for three hours after 24 hour marinade way finished our wings with our smoked butter.

It turns out to be really delicious.

These are drag queens.

Peter had been perfecting that 24 hour marinade for years before teaming up with his sister to open cane.

And here on H, ST 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 pick that house some hot peppers.

It's a little snap Press with each way.

Often have people come and say they've never They've never had anything like this.

And they say every time they come to D.

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Okay, a cane sour.

Just a new cocktail.

This drink is really centered around Angostura bitters.

So that's a new addition.

Thio the rum flights, which a lot of folks like Thio come try with friends instead of waiting for the drink cart to foist over one tiny bottle of booze up there, dip into a flight around before you fly on.

Sample these goods from the West Indies.

The name Kane is a non toe.

All this rum they're pouring up behind the bar and to the history of the sugar cane industry.

Trinidadian food became this unique entity because of the unique combination of people that may traded at their home.

African slaves worked the land.

The indentured laborers from India stay 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 It's just really unique.

Theo Indian influence in those layered flavors are featured in Kane's Tiffin Lunch box, Thes Tins, Air still a popular way to carry lunch in India and the West Indies Today, All right, guys, we build our tiffen this'll tower of tin flaky fried Perata is the base layer for a stack of Curries Okay.

On the second floor, we got chicken upstairs.

Eggplant in tomato.

Choke a and up top.

Slow cooked tender Be.

You know, you need to get in with bread.

Everybody has their own technique.

You make the perfect bite, whatever your perfect, but it is home.

Hmm.

Wash down all that spice with a lot of rum and you'll be feeling good by takeoff time.