African Diaspora Foodways

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• related to Afro-Colombian Foodways documented

  Cartagena was one of the two legal slave ports of Spanish America. Rice, plantain, okra, coconut technique and the palenque are the documented inheritance.

• related to Afro-Cuban and Chinese-Cuban Foodways documented

  Yoruba, Kongo and Calabar traditions survived with unusual specificity because the trade to Cuba continued into the 1860s.

• related to Afro-Ecuadorian Foodways of Esmeraldas documented

  Esmeraldas traces in part to survivors of a 1553 slave-ship wreck who formed free communities; the coconut technique is the clearest marker.

• related to Afro-Guyanese Foodways documented
• related to Afro-Venezuelan Foodways documented

  Barlovento, the cacao coast and the Sur del Lago are where enslaved Africans were put to work on cacao and sugar; the population and the crop have the same history.

• related to Bahamas Foodways documented
• related to Barbados Sugar and Rum documented

  ⚠ Barbados is where the English sugar-and-slavery plantation model was invented and from which it was exported, along with the 1661 slave code.

• related to Carriacou and Petite Martinique documented

  The Big Drum / Nation Dance names specific African nations — Cromanti, Igbo, Manding, Chamba, Temne — with exceptional preservation.

• related to Haitian Foodways documented
• related to Jamaican Foodways documented
• related to Surinamese Maroon Foodways documented

  ⚠ Peoples who won freedom by war and treaty a century before abolition, not a subgroup of the Creole population.

• related to The Shared Caribbean Layer documented

  Okra, pigeon peas, ackee, callaloo, the one-pot and rice knowledge are the documented African inheritance across every island in this file.

• related to Tobago Foodways documented

  ⚠ Tobago received no significant Indian indenture and its food is Afro-Caribbean; it is not a variant of Trinidad.

• related to Trinidadian Dishes documented

  Callaloo, coo-coo, pelau and the one-pot are the African inheritance.

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