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Another popular dish in the Anglophone Caribbean is called "cook-up", or pelau. Ackee and saltfish is another popular dish that is unique to Jamaica. Callaloo is a dish containing leafy vegetables such as spinach and sometimes okra amongst others, widely distributed in the Caribbean, with a distinctively mixed African and indigenous character.
Caribbean cuisine by country (13 C) Caribbean cuisine by dependent territory (2 C) A. Alcohol in the Caribbean (5 C, 1 P) B. Beer in the Caribbean (15 P) C.
This is a list of Jamaican dishes and foods. Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, ingredients, flavours, spices and influences from the Taínos , Jamaica's indigenous people , the Spanish , Portuguese , French , Scottish , Irish , English , African , Indian , Chinese and Mildde Eastern people, who have inhabited the island.
Popular freshly prepared street foods include: Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian foods like doubles, [21] aloo pie, [22] pholourie, [23] saheena, [24] baiganee, bara, and kachori are popular street foods throughout the country. Another popular Indo-T&T street food is wrap roti, (usually paratha or dhalpuri).
Jamaican cuisine is available throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and other places with a sizeable Jamaican population or descendants, [86] [87] such as coastal Central America [7] [8] [11] and the Caribbean. Jamaican food can be found in other regions, and popular dishes often appear on the menus of non-Jamaican restaurants.
A typical Cuban sandwich. A Cuban sandwich (sometimes called a mixto, especially in Cuba [6] [7]) is a popular lunch item that grew out of the once-open flow of cigar workers between Cuba and Florida (specifically Key West and the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa) in the late 19th century and has since spread to other Cuban American communities.
These foods are served with a spicy slaw called pikliz which consists of cabbage, carrot, vinegar, Scotch bonnet pepper, and spices. Fried foods, collectively known as fritaille (fritay), are sold widely on the streets. [15] Haitian fries and sweet Haitian vanilla bean marshmallows are also popular appetizers in Haiti. [16]
Bahamian traditions and food have been exported to other countries with emigrants. [5] Coconut Grove, Florida celebrates the Goombay Festival in June, transforming the area's Grand Avenue into a Carnival (Caribbean Carnival) in celebration of Bahamian culture, Bahamian food and music (Junkanoo and "Rake'N'Scrape" [6]). [7]