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Heri Heri and Moksi Alesi

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HERI HERI — boiled ground provisions: cassava, sweet potato, tayer, plantain, with salt fish or fried bakkeljauw and boiled egg, laid out plainly. ⚠ IT IS EATEN ON KETI KOTI, 1 JULY, the commemoration of the breaking of the chains in 1863, and the plainness is the point — it is read as the food of the enslaved, and eating it is an act of memory. MOKSI ALESI — "mixed rice" — rice cooked down with salt meat, salt fish, beans or peas, coconut milk and vegetables in one pot; ⚠ A RELATIVE OF GUYANESE COOK-UP RICE AND THE CARIBBEAN RICE-AND-PEAS FAMILY, recorded as a separate dish rather than merged with them.

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Communities and languages

  • Afro-Surinamese Creoles community documented

Languages: Sranan Tongo

What is recorded

  • Heri heri — boiled ground provisions with salt fish and egg — is documented as eaten on Keti Koti, 1 July, commemorating the abolition of slavery in 1863, and its plainness is understood as referring to the food of the enslaved. Moksi alesi is recorded as a distinct dish within the Caribbean rice-and-peas family and is not merged with Guyanese cook-up rice. documented

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