David “D2” Davis and Geoffrey Biggie Irie Cordle are the undisputed “hammists” of Barbados.
The pair eclipsed six other teams at the inaugural Pork, Pan and Parang Festival, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC) today, to earn bragging rights for a year in the Ham Bake-Off Competition.
Following the announcement by head judge Chef Gregory Austin, Davis broke out in song: “I would eat off a ham. And all my ham get eat off. It was good all the way down to the bone that somebody carry home the bone!”
“I am a Bajan and anything I do has to be filled with Bajanism. On Saturdays, Bajans love souse, so I presented a ham in a souse dress. All the garnishes and dressings around the ham spelt souse,” he said.
The entertainer/designer said it was his second time baking a ham after practising earlier this week.
“Biggie knows how to make a ham taste good. Biggie added the flavours; he tested, tasted and said he will add a bit of this and a bit of that, and made it to what it was. I just know I had to do my part which was the creativity aspect of it.” (RA)
