Anguilla

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Green Seasoning

Shadon beni, chive, thyme, garlic, pimento pepper and onion blended with vinegar into a green marinade base.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Grilled Lobster

Homard Grillé

Grilled lobster; a Guadeloupean seafood delight; lobster expertly grilled over a wood fire; accompanied by lime; the pinnacle of the local culinary experience; the grilled lobster that is a Guadeloupean luxury. Turks and Caicos cooks grill local lobster over fire with lime and island seasoning, alongside the shared Caribbean preparation.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Guava Duff

Guava pulp rolled into a sweet dough, wrapped in cloth and boiled or steamed into a log, sliced and covered with a butter-and-rum sauce. BVI Guava Duff folds guava into boiled dough and serves the sliced pudding with butter sauce.

🇦🇮Anguilla

Jamaican Festival

Festival

Sweetened cornmeal and flour dough rolled into a finger shape and deep-fried until golden — the fixed accompaniment to jerk and fried fish.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Jamaican Ginger Beer

Ginger beer

Fresh ginger grated and steeped with lime and sugar until it turns fiercely hot, then strained and chilled.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Jerk Chicken

Chicken marinated for a day in pimento, scotch bonnet, thyme and escallion, then smoked slowly over pimento wood on a grate laid across a split oil drum.

🇯🇲Jamaican Coast, Jamaica

Jerk Pork

Pork shoulder cured in the same pimento and scotch bonnet paste and smoked over pimento wood until the outside blackens and the fat renders.

🇦🇼Aruba

Johnny Cake

Johnny cake; a traditional Aruban fried bread; made with flour, water, yeast, lard, and sugar; fried in oil; served with cheese or bacalao (salt cod); a popular snack and breakfast item; a feature of roadside snack-bars; a staple of Aruban street food

🇯🇲Jamaica

Mannish Water

Goat head, tripe and feet boiled with green banana, yam, spinners, pimento and a splash of white rum, served at weddings and celebrations.

🇦🇮Anguilla

Pyrat Rum

A premium blended rum originally produced in Anguilla (factory in Sandy Ground closed in 2009); amber-hued blend aged up to 16 years with notes of caramel, honey, molasses, and orange peel; still served in many Anguilla establishments

🇧🇧Barbados

Rice and Peas

Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans or gungo peas, thyme, escallion and a whole scotch bonnet, served with every Sunday dinner.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Rum Punch

Rum, lime, sugar syrup, fruit juice and grenadine mixed to the old rhyme — one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.

🇬🇾Guyana

Sada Roti

Plain unleavened flatbread cooked on a tawa and clapped between the hands to soften, eaten with chokas at breakfast.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Scone

Sconaí

A small plain or fruited quick bread, split and spread with jam and clotted cream as the centre of a cream tea.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Scotch Bonnet

Small crumpled chilli, red or yellow, extremely hot but distinctly fruity, used whole in pots and pulled out before serving.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Shepherd's Pie

Minced lamb cooked down with onion, carrot and stock, topped with mashed potato and baked until the peaks brown.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Sorrel

Dried hibiscus calyces steeped with ginger, pimento and cloves, sweetened and often spiked with rum — drunk at Christmas.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Sorrel

Hibiscus calyces steeped with clove, cinnamon, ginger and orange peel, sweetened, and often spiked with rum at Christmas.

🇦🇮Anguilla

Sweet Potato Dumplings

Ducuna

Individual sweet potato and raisin dumplings, wrapped in greaseproof paper and foil, boiled until firm; a traditional Anguillan dessert

🇲🇶Martinique

Sweet Potato Pudding

Grated sweet potato baked slowly with coconut milk, brown sugar, nutmeg and raisins into a dense dark pudding with a custardy top.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Switcha

Native key limes squeezed into water with sugar and served over ice — the islands' everyday lemonade.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Coconut Bread

Coconut Bread

Sweet bread made with fresh coconut meat, flour, sugar, and vanilla; a local favourite at bakeries in the Turks and Caicos Islands; a traditional island baked good; a TCI treat.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Coconut Pie

Coconut Pie

Coconut custard pie on a digestive biscuit base, topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut flakes; a Turks and Caicos dessert; a traditional island sweet; a distinctive TCI treat.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Cod Fish Cakes

Cod Fish Cakes

Salted cod mixed with mashed potatoes, formed into patties, coated in cornmeal or breadcrumbs, and fried; a traditional Turks and Caicos snack

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Johnny Cake

Johnny Cake

Slightly sweetened pan-baked cornbread that preserved well for sailors and fishermen on long trips; derived from 'Journey Cake'; served with boiled fish, souse, or as a snack; a staple of Turks and Caicos cuisine.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Steamed Conch

Steamed Conch

A traditional Turks and Caicos preparation where conch is steamed, often served with grits or hominy; a classic method before frying became common

🇯🇲Jamaica

Ting

Carbonated grapefruit soft drink made with real juice since 1976, sharply bitter and sold in a stubby green bottle.