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Raizal Foodways

San Andrés y Providencia

Island

⚠ WEST INDIAN, NOT COSTEÑO. San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina lie about 700 km from the Colombian mainland and about 200 km off Nicaragua. The RAIZAL people are Afro-Caribbean Protestants — largely Baptist — descended from English-speaking settlers and enslaved Africans, speaking SAN ANDRÉS CREOLE ENGLISH alongside English and Spanish, and recognised in Colombian law as a distinct ethnic group. The food is Caribbean island food: RONDÓN (rundown) — fish, conch, breadfruit, yam, cassava, dumplings and pigtail simmered in coconut milk for hours; crab soup; fried fish with coconut rice and patacón; conch; JOHNNY CAKE; breadfruit; and the bammy-adjacent cassava breads. ⚠ CLASSIFYING THIS AS "COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN COAST FOOD" WOULD BE AN ERROR, and the spec is right to say so.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Raizal community documented

Languages: San Andres Creole English, English, Spanish

What is recorded

  • Raizal foodways of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina are recorded as West Indian and English-Caribbean, not as Colombian Caribbean coastal foodways. The Raizal are recognised in Colombian law as a distinct ethnic group, speak an English-lexifier creole, and the archipelago lies approximately 700 km from the Colombian mainland and 200 km from Nicaragua. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to British Caribbean Food Culture documented

    An English-lexifier creole, a Baptist church tradition and a West Indian kitchen 700 km from Colombia.

  • related to Caribbean documented

    ⚠ Raizal food is West Indian. Rundown, johnny cake, conch and breadfruit belong to the anglophone Caribbean, not to the Colombian mainland coast.

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