Lots of food, peo­ple and ac­tiv­i­ty could be found at the Blue Food Fes­ti­val at the Bloody Bay Recre­ation Ground last Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 16).

Host­ed by the To­ba­go Fes­ti­vals Com­mis­sion Ltd, the event high­light­ed the is­land’s na­tive dasheen in all its glo­ry.

Hay Looks’ Josephine Hayford sits in her booth awaiting another customer during the Blue Food Festival at the Bloody Bay Recreation Ground last Sunday.

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From fly­ing fish roll-ups stuffed with dasheen and dasheen an­char, to dasheen chips and dip and dasheen pep­per sauce, the root crop was the event’s cen­tral fo­cus. How­ev­er, there were oth­er pro­vi­sions to be eat­en at the fes­ti­val, in­clud­ing plan­tains, along with an ar­ray of de­li­cious cuisines.

Patrons take in one of the live performances during the Blue Food Festival.

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Vis­i­tors al­so got to en­joy brows­ing and pur­chas­ing fresh pro­duce from the farm­ers’ mar­ket.

Some of the food items for sale at the farmers’ market during the Blue Food Festival.

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In ad­di­tion, the fes­ti­val had live per­for­mances by sev­er­al en­ter­tain­ers, in­clud­ing Ron­nie McIn­tosh and Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter and the Katzen­jam­mers Steel Or­ches­tra.

THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine greets these young visitors to the Blue Food Festival.

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And the chil­dren were not left out, as there were sev­er­al ac­tiv­i­ties for them, in­clud­ing a boun­cy cas­tle, crafts, and a pet­ting zoo.

This year was the fes­ti­val’s 25th an­niver­sary.