Loquat Cheesecake
Recipes

Loquat Cheesecake

In the early spring, loquats ripen on trees all over Bermuda. This fruit is somewhere between an apricot and a kumquat in size and flavour. Children snack on them, or use them as projectiles while waiting for the bus. Loquats find their way into pies, liqueur, upside-down cakes, chutneys, jams and this cheesecake! Ingredients: 2 lbs cream cheese (4 boxes), at room temperature 1 cup sugar 4 eggs 1/4 cup heavy cream 2 ounces Bermuda Gold Liqueur (loquat cordial or…

January 26, 2023

NASA Tracking: How Bermuda Helped Put A Man On The Moon
Heritage

NASA Tracking: How Bermuda Helped Put A Man On The Moon

Though Cooper’s Island is now a reserve teeming with natural beauty, the environment it held in the 1960s was vastly different. Instead of the hum of insects and the chirrups of long tails, the secluded point on St. David’s buzzed…

January 26, 2023

5 Historical Facts About Scaur Hill Fort & Park
Our Bermuda

5 Historical Facts About Scaur Hill Fort & Park

Sandys Parish is yet another piece of Bermuda that is immersed in historical significance and home to military heritage site, Scaur Hill Fort and Park.  Heading west over Somerset Bridge you are presented with windy limestone walls and woodland area…

January 25, 2023

St. George’s: 20 Years as Bermuda’s World Heritage Site
Our Bermuda

St. George’s: 20 Years as Bermuda’s World Heritage Site

Twenty years ago, UNESCO designated much of the East End to have 'Outstanding Universal Value'. What does this status mean for Bermuda today - and tomorrow? Our collective sense of humanity has fundamentally expanded during 2020. This year marks the…

January 25, 2023

Photography by: Meredith Andrews

Written by: Dr. Charlotte Andrews

Heritage

Dame Lois Browne-Evans

This article was taken from our archives. It originally appeared in the October 1980 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. Dame Lois Browne-Evans sits forward in her chair at her new Court Street law…

January 25, 2023

Written by: Keith Hunt

Home & Garden

In the Garden: Winter

Fifty years ago, the “Plant a tree in ’73” campaign was in full swing, followed by “Plant one more in ’74.” Look around the island now and we can see the results: fully grown, healthy Bermuda cedars and Bermuda olivewoods…

January 24, 2023

Written by: Elizabeth Jones