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Dominican Regional Foodways

Regional

The CIBAO valley — the agricultural heart, Santiago, and the most conservative Spanish dialect in the country; rice, tobacco, cacao and plantain. SANTO DOMINGO and the south-east — the city, the oldest European settlement in the Americas, and the sugar bateyes worked largely by Haitian and Haitian-descended labour. SAMANÁ — settled in the 1820s by free African Americans from Philadelphia and New York, still partly English-speaking and Protestant, with coconut in everything and its own distinct kitchen. The SOUTH-WEST — dry, goat country, and the Haitian border. ⚠ THE BORDER IS A FOOD REGION and a place of documented anti-Haitian violence, including the 1937 Parsley Massacre; that is recorded.

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Communities and languages

  • Samaná Americans community documented

Languages: Spanish, English, Haitian Creole

What is recorded

  • Samaná was settled in the 1820s by free African Americans emigrating from Philadelphia and New York; the community retained English and Protestant practice and has a distinct culinary profile including heavy coconut use. The Dominican-Haitian border is recorded as a shared food economy and as the site of documented anti-Haitian violence including the 1937 Parsley Massacre. documented
  • Free African Americans from Philadelphia and New York settle Samaná, retaining English and Protestant practice. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to African-American Foodways documented

    Samaná was settled in the 1820s by free African Americans from Philadelphia and New York; the community remains partly English-speaking and Protestant.

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