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Garifuna Foodways in Honduras

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⚠ THE LARGEST GARIFUNA POPULATION IN THE WORLD LIVES IN HONDURAS, in some four dozen coastal communities from Masca in Cortés through Travesía, Bajamar, Tornabé, Triunfo de la Cruz, SAMBO CREEK, Corozal, Nueva Armenia, Iriona and Plaplaya to the Mosquitia — with DANGRIGA’s Belizean counterpart being a separate community, not a branch. They landed at Roatán on 12 April 1797 and the date is observed. The foodway: BITTER CASSAVA processed on the RUGUMA press into EREBA, the flat cassava bread; HUDUT — fish stewed in coconut milk, eaten with FUFU/machuca, the green and ripe plantain pounded in a HANA mortar; TAPOU/tapado; MACHUCA; DARASA, the green-banana tamal; BUNDIGA; coconut rice; GUIFITI, the herb-steeped spirit; and coconut in nearly everything. ⚠ AND THE LAND: Garifuna communities hold documented collective land title and have taken Honduras to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights over coastal dispossession, winning judgments in 2015 — a food-system fact, because the foodway needs the shore.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Garifuna community documented

Languages: Garifuna, Spanish, English

What is recorded

  • Honduras holds the largest Garifuna population in the world, distributed across approximately four dozen coastal communities from Cortés to Gracias a Dios. The landing at Roatán is dated to 12 April 1797 and is observed. Ereba is made from bitter cassava processed on the ruguma press; hudut is fish in coconut milk eaten with plantain pounded in a hana mortar. Garifuna communities hold collective land title and obtained judgments against Honduras in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2015 concerning coastal dispossession. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from Saint Vincent and the Garifuna documented

    Landed at Roatán on 12 April 1797 after deportation from Saint Vincent.

  • part of Garifuna Foodways documented

    ⚠ The largest Garifuna population in the world lives in Honduras. That makes Honduras a place Garifuna people live, not the owner of the foodway.

  • related to Garifuna Foodways in Guatemala documented

    ⚠ Related communities, not branches of one another. Lívingston and Dangriga and Sambo Creek each have their own local kitchen.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Sopa de Caracol documented

    Garifuna and Bay Islands Creole in its lineage, now a national dish.

  • related to Tapado Olanchano and Tapado Garífuna documented

    ⚠ Tapado garífuna and tapado olanchano are two dishes sharing a name and are kept apart by geography and ingredients.

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