The things here are very expensive

Maybe you came here as well.The menu at Tony Macaroni’s is decidedly basic, and extremely limited at that. There’s nothing on the menu that jumps out as particularly special, since it’s just a condensed menu of simple Bahamian dishes you can find pretty much everywhere. And the place has kind of a ridiculous name, as there’s no Italian food to be found. Bear with me.

Yes, I do realize the prices look insanely expensive. That’s because they are, and they are not artificially so. This is very much business as usual in the Bahamas, as the country has no income tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax or wealth tax of any kind. The country’s government supports itself entirely on sales tax and tariffs. The country’s equivalent to social security/social insurance is funded by payroll tax.

So everything you buy? Freakin’ expensive, especially if the goods have to be imported, so buy local.

Food and drink has to be at the heart of the tale is?

The pleasure we will enjoy food The Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing 2013 will be awarded at next year’s festival to the best short story on the theme of food and drink.

Food and drink has to be at the heart of the tale. The story could, for instance, be fiction or fact about a chance meeting over a drink, a life-changing conversation over dinner, or a relationship explored through food or drink. It could be crime or intrigue; in fact, any subject you like as long as it involves food and/or drink in some way.

The panel of judges will include Jeremy Mogford, owner of Oxford’s Old Parsonage and Old Bank hotels and Gee’s restaurant, Donald Sloan, co-founder and chair of Oxford Gastronomica and head of the Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University, and Pru Leith, the celebrated food writer and novelist.