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Antigua and Barbuda Foodways

National

โš  TWO ISLANDS WITH DIFFERENT LAND AND DIFFERENT FOOD. ANTIGUA is low, dry limestone and coral with no rivers โ€” water has always been the constraint, and it was cleared almost entirely for sugar. BARBUDA is flatter, drier still, was held by the Codrington family as a single lease supplying the Antiguan estates, and its people have held LAND IN COMMON ever since, a system defended in law to this day. The national dish is FUNGI AND PEPPERPOT โ€” cornmeal-and-okra fungi with a thick stew of salt meat and greens. Plus DUCANA, the sweet-potato-and-coconut parcel; saltfish; seasoned rice; goat water; and the seafood of both islands, with Barbuda known for LOBSTER.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Antiguans community documented
  • Barbudans community documented

Languages: English, Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

What is recorded

  • Antigua and Barbuda are recorded as two islands with distinct land systems and foodways. Antigua is low limestone and coral without rivers, where water availability has been the principal agricultural constraint. Barbuda was leased in its entirety to the Codrington family as a provisioning island for the Antiguan estates rather than cultivated for cane. documented

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Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Barbuda Foodways documented

    โš  Barbuda held land in common after emancipation and was a provisioning island rather than a cane island. A different land system and therefore a different food system.

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