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Article: Food: The island of Trinidad has a fusion of cuisines, from Asian to European to African - brought together with unique Caribbean flair, and served up with liberal helpings of pepper sauce
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2001
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Sun, sea and sand. That is how most of us like to imagine the
Caribbean, preferably with a rum punch close to hand. Its food barely
registers on our consciousness. Yet brush aside the tourist menu and
you will find a rich culinary heritage on each island, rooted in its
complex history of invasion, piracy, slavery and indentured labour.
Nowhere is this more true than in Trinidad, a small industrial island
that depends on oil, gas and sugar rather than tourism for its
income.
Trinidad's cooking is shaped by its unique ethnic mix of
inhabitants, descended from successive waves of Spanish, French, East
African, British, Indian, Chinese, Syrian, Portuguese and Venezuelan
immigrants. Its lush ...