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Bahamian Island Foodways

Island

⚠ THE ISLANDS ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE, AND WHERE EVIDENCE IS THIN THIS ROW SAYS SO RATHER THAN INVENTING LOCAL SPECIALITIES. NEW PROVIDENCE and Nassau — most of the population, the Fish Fry at Arawak Cay, Potter’s Cay under the bridge, the markets. GRAND BAHAMA and Freeport. ANDROS — the largest island, the bonefishing flats, land crab, and the sponge and crabbing traditions. ELEUTHERA — the PINEAPPLE island, whose nineteenth-century pineapple export trade was significant and whose Gregory Town pineapple festival continues. ABACO — boatbuilding, Loyalist settlement, crawfish. LONG ISLAND, CAT ISLAND, EXUMA, BIMINI — fishing communities. INAGUA — the SALT island, with one of the largest solar salt operations in the region, and flamingos. ⚠ SALT IS AN INDUSTRY HERE, NOT A DISH.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

Languages: Bahamas Creole English

What is recorded

  • Bahamian island foodways are recorded where evidence supports them — Eleuthera pineapple cultivation and export, Inagua salt production, Andros crabbing and sponging, New Providence market and fish-fry culture — and the thinness of island-specific culinary evidence elsewhere is stated rather than filled with invented local specialities. The archipelago comprises roughly 700 islands and cays with about 30 inhabited. documented

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