Sunday brunch

I went to Terra Nova for brunch. Terra Nova is a nice hotel on Waterloo Road (http://www.terranovajamaica.com/index2.php). It has a very pleasant terrace restaurant area where I sometimes go for lunch or breakfast. Their Sunday brunch is famous for its large buffet menu, but this was my first time trying it out. I never went there before because their Sunday brunch is set up not at the terrace but inside a plain rectangular banquet hall under a tent roof, which makes it less interesting for me.

The buffet offers a really large selection. The photo shows a part of the dessert section; I mean, it shows only A PART, I'd say, nearly half of the entire dessert section. In addition to the various cakes shown, they also offer different kinds of mousse and fresh fruits, which my camera could not possibly capture in this picture. And this is only the dessert section. The appetizer section is about twice the size of the dessert section, and the warm food section is twice the size of the appetizer section. I tried a little bit of nearly two-thirds of the items lined up in the appetizer and warm food sections, and concluded that the "suckling pig" was VERY good, so tender and tasty that I would come back just for that, though I was quite sure that I would not like to try again "cowfoot and beans."

The Sunday brunch buffet costs 2263JMD per person, which is about US$30.

News in paradise:
Re: the observation I've been making on local food and imported food, today's Gleaner reports on a discussion that Jamaica should encourage local farming more.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081012/lead/lead3.html