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Mennonite Foodways in Belize

Community

⚠ A SMALL COMMUNITY THAT FEEDS THE COUNTRY. Mennonites arrived in Belize from Mexico and Canada from 1958 under an agreement guaranteeing religious freedom, exemption from military service and control of their own schools, and settled Spanish Lookout, Blue Creek, Shipyard and Little Belize. They speak PLAUTDIETSCH and range from horse-and-buggy conservative to fully mechanised, and the mechanised colonies supply a very large share of Belize’s dairy, eggs, poultry, beans and produce. The kitchen is Russian-Mennonite: zwieback, farmer sausage, vereniki, rollkuchen, plümemoos, and cheese. ⚠ RECORDED AS A DISTINCT COMMUNITY AND AS AN AGRICULTURAL FACT, not as representative Belizean food.

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Communities and languages

  • Mennonites community documented

Languages: Plautdietsch, German

What is recorded

  • Mennonite settlement of Belize begins under an agreement providing religious freedom, military exemption and control of their own schools. documented
  • Mennonites settled Belize from 1958 under an agreement providing religious freedom, military exemption and control of their own schools, establishing Spanish Lookout, Blue Creek, Shipyard and Little Belize. The mechanised colonies supply a substantial share of Belizean dairy, poultry, eggs, beans and produce. They are recorded as a distinct community and as an agricultural fact rather than as representative Belizean foodways. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to German Foodways documented

    A Russian-Mennonite Plautdietsch kitchen supplying much of Belize’s dairy and produce.

  • related to Mennonite Paraguayan Foodways documented

    Two Mennonite agricultural settlements in Latin America with the same origin and the same cooperative dairy pattern.

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