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Fungi, Pepper Pot and Ducana

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FUNGI (pronounced foon-jee) — cornmeal cooked with okra and beaten smooth, the same technique family as Bajan cou-cou and Virgin Islands fungi, and of West African descent; ⚠ recorded as a related but separate entity from cou-cou, because the national pairing differs. ANTIGUAN PEPPER POT — a thick stew of salt beef or pork with spinach, okra, aubergine, squash, onion and dumplings, eaten with fungi and ⚠ NOT the same dish as Guyanese, Bajan or Jamaican pepperpot. DUCANA — grated sweet potato and coconut with sugar and spice, wrapped in banana leaf and boiled, eaten with saltfish and often with spinach; the name is generally traced to a West African root, an attribution that is reported and not conclusively documented. Plus SEASONED RICE, fried snapper, conch water, and the Antiguan BLACK PINEAPPLE of Claremont.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

Languages: Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

What is recorded

  • Antiguan fungi is cornmeal cooked with okra and beaten smooth, recorded as related to Barbadian cou-cou and Virgin Islands fungi and as a separate entity with a different national pairing. Antiguan pepper pot is a thick stew of salt meat with greens and vegetables and is recorded as distinct from Guyanese, Barbadian and Jamaican dishes of that name. The derivation of ducana from a West African root is reported and not conclusively documented. documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Cou-Cou and Flying Fish documented

    Cou-cou and fungi are the same technique family under different names and with different national pairings. Related, not merged.

  • related to Goat Water documented

    ⚠ Goat water appears in Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua. Related and separate; no origin assigned.

  • related to Pepperpot — four dishes, one name documented

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