What's your favorite type of cuisine?!
What's your favorite type of cuisine?
Like Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican food, etc?
Answers:
Caribbean Cuisine all the way. My second choice will be Chinese.
To understand the food of the Caribbean, you first have to understand the history of the Caribbean .
So A LITTLE HISTORY.
The Caribbean islands (they used to be called the Spice Islands) were found as explorers, settlers, and laborers from all over the world came to benefit from its natural bounty firsthand. Spanish, British, French, and Dutch colonies brought European influences and their own unique cuisine.
African, East Indian, and Chinese, as well as workers
from Indonesia, French Indo—China, and the Yucatan
Peninsula, also came bringing their own culinary flavors.
THE FOOD
The most important thing to keep in mind when defining Caribbean food is that there is no definition!
If the spice is out there, it’s probably in here somewhere!
Locally grown herbs and spices like thyme, sweet basil, mint, allspice, annatto, black and white peppers, chiles, cinnamon, ginger, mace, nutmeg, and turmeric have always been important in Caribbean cooking as well as peppers of all kinds – Scotch Bonnet, Mexican Habanero, Jamaican Country, French West Indian Pimento, even Jalepeno Chili.
And if the fruit grows anywhere in the Western hemisphere, you’ll probably find it in a Caribbean dish. Coconuts, mangoes, papayas, bananas, guava, cassava, lemons, limes, apples, passion fruit, West Indian Garden Cherry, jackfruit, breadfruit (you get the idea).
Caribbean cuisine is unlike any other ethnic food.
It’s not just Jamaican. It’s not just Mexican.
It’s not just Spanish. It’s not just French.
But thanks to our Caribbean forefathers, it is Jamaican, Mexican,Spanish,French ,African ,Indonesian,Dutch,Chinese,Cuba... even more......
Which brings us back to the History..
But I'll stop here as the question was about food.