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Bay Islands and North Coast Creole Foodways

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⚠ AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING AFRO-CARIBBEAN POPULATION THAT IS NOT GARIFUNA, and conflating the two is the commonest error about this coast. The Bay Islands and parts of the north coast hold ISLEÑO and Creole communities descended from Cayman Islander settlers, English and Scottish traders, and freed and escaped Africans, plus later West Indian arrivals brought for the banana industry; they are Protestant, English-speaking, and look to Grand Cayman and Belize as much as to Tegucigalpa. The food is West Indian: rice and beans in coconut milk, conch and lobster, fish tea, coconut bread, johnnycake, PAN DE COCO — now sold across the mainland north coast — plantain tarts, ginger beer and stew. ⚠ RECORDED AS COMMUNITIES WITH A FOOD SYSTEM, not as an "Afro-Caribbean influence" on something else.

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Communities and languages

  • Bay Islanders community documented
  • Creoles community documented

Languages: English, Spanish

What is recorded

  • The English-speaking Afro-Caribbean and Isleño communities of the Bay Islands and parts of the north coast are recorded as distinct from the Garifuna. Conflation of the two is a documented common error. Pan de coco originating in these and Garifuna communities is now sold across the mainland north coast. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Jamaican Foodways documented

    ⚠ Not Garifuna. An English-speaking Afro-Caribbean population with a West Indian kitchen — rice and beans in coconut milk, johnnycake, fish tea.

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