There is a fine line between Calabash and a cult. After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for ...

By Ajekigbe Adewale OlayemiCALABASH carving (Igbafinfin) is a traditional handcraft profession domesticated in Oyo, Southwestern Nigeria and has become part of the people’s tradition and culture. It ...

This weekend, four acclaimed Man Booker Prize winners — Michael Ondaatje (1992), Ian McEwan (1998), Marlon James (2015), and Shehan Karunatilaka (2022) — alongside other distinguished authors, will ...

As one of the restaurants that helped Calabash earn its reputation as the Seafood Capital of the World, Ella’s of Calabash has become much more than a business since opening in 1950.

At a picnic table outside the Calabash Seafood Hut, a breeze travels up the hill from the river and knocks the edge off the mid-summer swelter. “The seagull bites,” said Seafood Hut manager ...

Kwame Dawes, Jamaica’s poet laureate and co-founder of the Calabash Literary Festival, says this year’s event — held in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, May 23-25 — was the biggest in terms of attendance ...

Among the host of literary gatherings that have sprung up in the last 20 years, Calabash in Jamaica brings the party off the page. Promoting books and encouraging writers is the mission of the ...

Though it is essentially just another way of saying fried seafood, “Calabash-style” certainly rolls a little sweeter off the tongue. The gospel of fried seafood has been spread far and wide ...