Taíno Foodways

Communities and languages

• Taíno community documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• related to Bahamian Dishes, History and Junkanoo documented

  ⚠ The Lucayans were taken wholesale into slavery in Hispaniola within a generation of 1492 and the islands were left effectively empty for over a century. Recorded as history, and as a rupture rather than a continuity.

• related to Indigenous Caribbean Foodways — a note documented
• related to Jerk probable

  Barbacoa smoking over green wood is the probable Indigenous component; the seasoning complex is not.

• related to The Shared Caribbean Layer documented

  Cassava, the conuco, barbacoa, guava, pineapple and the words canoe, hurricane and barbecue.

• related to Vincentian Arrowroot probable

  Arrowroot is an Indigenous South American and Caribbean domesticate and its English name is generally traced to an Arawak word.

Recipes

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