Carriacou food - always to remember
Local Grenadian food has legacies from all the island's various influences including British, French and of course African, but it is also solidly West Indian. Meals can be unexpectedly heavy for the climate, with a sauce or even a stew accompanied by rice and exotic, sometimes starchy tropical vegetables, but island cooks make good use of local ingredients such as the local fish, and of course their food is always tasty, as the island's famous spices are put to good use too. The Grenadian national dish (a West Indian classic anyway) is oil down, or 'ile dung' as it is usually pronounced, which consists of breadfruit, dasheen leaves, root vegetables and some salt pork (optional) all steamed in coconut milk and spices. It bubbles away, simmering down, for several hours. Stews can usually be found on local menus - stewed fish, stewed pork and beef - and soups are a favourite too, particularly on a Saturday, when households cook up fish broth, lambi waters and the delightfully named cowheel soup. Other weekend favourites are black pudding and salt fish souse, which are eaten with Johnny bakes. Lambi, the French creole name for conch, is often served up curried. A more delicate seafood is fried jacks, quite like whiting, which are delicious. With Grenada's extremely fertile soil, the island's market stalls are piled high with vegetables, or ground provisions', including sweet and 'Irish' potato, tannia, eddoe, yam, and many different varieties of plantain and fig (relatives of the banana). If you are cooking for yourself it is fun to head out into the market to buy all these things. Other side dishes include christophene, a pear-shaped vegetable that grows on a vine, and coocoo, which is made from corn. If you are feeling adventurous you might like to try farine (cassava flour), which is often eaten with pig souse or saltfish cakes. Grenada uses its range of fruits to make some exotic ice-creams, including nutmeg, soursop and even avocado. Finally, if you hear of a mysterious drink called Bois Bande (pronounced as in bawbandy), beware of the quantities you drink. Made from the bark of a tree, it is touted as a natural Viagra. If you are not careful with quantities you could end up with longer lasting effects than you may wish.
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