Haitian Regional Foodways

Regional

Ten departments and real difference. The OUEST and PORT-AU-PRINCE — the city, the markets, the fritay stands selling griot, marinad, akra and bannann peze by the roadside. The NORD and CAP-HAÏTIEN — djondjon country, the old colonial capital, and the Citadelle. The ARTIBONITE — Haiti’s rice bowl, the irrigated valley that grows most of the domestic crop, and lalo. The SUD and the GRAND’ANSE — coffee, cacao, breadfruit, and vetiver. The SUD-EST and JACMEL. The NORD-OUEST and the CENTRE, dry and hard. ⚠ AND THE DEFORESTATION AND SOIL LOSS that constrain all of it are a documented food-system fact, not a backdrop.