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The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
[11]: vi Early Spanish explorers and administrators used the terms Arawak and Caribs to distinguish the peoples of the Caribbean, with Carib reserved for Indigenous groups that they considered hostile and Arawak for groups that they considered friendly. [12]: 121 The Kalinago language endonyms are Karifuna (singular) and Kalinago (plural).
Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of West African, [1] Creole, Amerindian, European, Latin American, Indian/South Asian, Chinese, North American, and Middle Eastern cuisines. These traditions were brought from many countries when they moved to the Caribbean. [1] In addition, the population has created styles that are unique to the region.
Puerto Rican cuisine is a product of diverse cultural influences, including Taíno Arawak, Spanish Criollos, and Africans. [5] It is characterized by a unique blend of Spanish seasonings and ingredients, which makes it similar to Spanish and other Latin American cuisines.
In turn the Arawak legend explains the origin of the Caribs as offspring of a putrid serpent. The social classes of the neo-Taíno, generalized from Bartolomé de las Casas , appeared to have been loosely feudal with the following Taíno classes: naboría (common people), nitaíno' (sub-chiefs, or nobles), bohique, ( shamans priests/ healers ...
Taíno (Arawak) women preparing cassava bread in 1565: grating cassava/yuca roots into paste, shaping the bread, and cooking it on a fire-heated burén. Fried bammy in Jamaica. Bammy is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread descended from the simple flatbread eaten by the Arawaks, Jamaica's original inhabitants. It is produced in many rural ...
A plate of jerk chicken, with rice, plantains, carrots and green beans. This is a list of Jamaican dishes and foods.Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavors, spices and influences from the indigenous people on the island of Jamaica, and the Africans and Indians who have inhabited the island.
The Kalina, also known as the Caribs or mainland Caribs and by several other names, are an Indigenous people native to the northern coastal areas of South America. Today, the Kalina live largely in villages on the rivers and coasts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. They speak a Cariban language known as Carib. [4]