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Saint Lucia Foodways

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⚠ AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY WHOSE FOOD VOCABULARY IS FRENCH. Saint Lucia changed hands between France and Britain fourteen times, and what survived is KWÉYÒL — Saint Lucian Creole French, a first language for a large share of the population and the language in which most food is actually named. The national dish is GREEN FIG AND SALTFISH: green banana (called FIG here, never "banana") boiled and served with salt cod stewed with onion, pepper and cucumber. Plus BOUYON, the thick provision soup; ACCRA; breadfruit roasted whole on a fire; cocoa tea; and the BOUYON and the Friday night JUMP-UP at Gros Islet and the FISH FRY at Anse La Raye. ⚠ TEN DISTRICTS, and the Pitons and the drive-in volcano are at Soufrière.

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Communities and languages

  • Saint Lucians community documented

Languages: English, Saint Lucian Creole French, French

What is recorded

  • Saint Lucia changed between French and British control fourteen times. Saint Lucian Creole French (Kwéyòl) is a French-lexifier creole with African grammatical features and Kalinago vocabulary and remains a first language for a substantial share of the population, including most food terminology. Green banana is termed "fig" in Saint Lucian usage. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • part of Lesser Antilles Foodways documented
  • related to French documented

    Fourteen changes of hands; the surviving inheritance is Kwéyòl, the French-lexifier creole in which most food is named.

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