Bermuda

🇯🇲Jamaica

Ackee and Saltfish

Boiled ackee — the soft yellow arils of the national fruit — sautéed with flaked salt cod, onion, tomato, scotch bonnet and thyme until it resembles scrambled egg.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Sugar Cake

Sugar Cake

Chewy confection of grated coconut cooked down with sugar, often tinted pink and flavoured with ginger or nutmeg; a classic Antiguan sweet treat; the mixture is often divided into two batches, one coloured pink and the other left white, poured one over the other to form a pink and white cake; found at markets and schoolyards; the sugar cake of Antigua.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Tamarind Balls

Tamarind Balls

Sticky sweet-and-sour balls of tamarind pulp rolled with sugar, sometimes with a pinch of hot pepper; a bite-sized Antiguan snack with a tangy kick; coated in granulated sugar; chewy, peppery, sweet, and sour; found at markets and schoolyards; the tamarind balls of Antigua.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Bahamian Stew Fish

Stew fish

Snapper or grouper browned and stewed in a dark flour roux with celery, onion, tomato and thyme.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Fish Cakes

Fish cakes

Salt cod flaked into a seasoned batter with herbs and hot pepper, dropped by the spoonful into hot oil and sold hot by the bag.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Souse

Souse

Boiled pork cuts cooled and steeped in a pickle of lime juice, cucumber, onion, parsley and scotch bonnet, served cold and dripping.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Sweet Bread

Sweet bread

A dense coconut loaf with cherries and raisins, brushed with sugar water so the top glazes, sold by the slab in bakeries.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

Bambarra Rum

TCI's rum brand named after the Bambarra settlement on Middle Caicos; blended from Caribbean rums and bottled in Providenciales; range includes white, gold, aged, and flavoured rums (coconut, dark); a Turks and Caicos product.

🇲🇶Martinique

Bananas Flambé

Banane Flambée

Bananas caramelized in butter and sugar, then flambéed with rum. Martinique's banane flambée uses rhum agricole, while Bermuda's Flaming Bananas commonly uses Gosling's Black Seal and may arrive with vanilla ice cream or crème fraîche.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Barritt's Ginger Beer

Bermuda's traditional ginger beer produced since 1875; essential component of a Dark 'n' Stormy and enjoyed on its own; a Bermudian product

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Black Rum Cake

Black Rum Cake

A rich, dark Bundt cake made with flour, sugar, butter, eggs, pecans, and Gosling's Black Seal Rum in both the batter and the glaze; a year-round dessert but especially popular at Christmas and special occasions; a Bermudian tradition.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Cassava Pie

Cassava Pie

A sweet and savory Christmas dish made from grated cassava (manioc) layered with meat filling (chicken, pork, beef, or lamb), sugar, butter, eggs, nutmeg, and vanilla; texture is like a moist cake with meat filling; essential to Bermudian Christmas dinner.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Codfish Breakfast

Codfish Breakfast

A traditional Sunday breakfast of boiled salted codfish served with boiled potatoes, sliced bananas, hard-boiled egg, avocado slices, and topped with either tomato sauce or butter-onion sauce; a quintessential Bermudian tradition

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Fish Cakes

Fish Cakes

Fried patties made from salted codfish, mashed potatoes, spices, and herbs; served year-round on buns with condiments, and traditionally on hot cross buns during Easter season; a Bermudian street food and snack.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Fish Chowder

Fish Chowder

Bermuda's national dish; a tomato-based seafood stew made with fresh local fish (wahoo, rockfish, snapper), potatoes, tomatoes, onions, carrots, green peppers, celery, and bacon fat; traditionally finished tableside with Gosling's Black Seal Rum and Outerbridge's Sherry Pepper Sauce

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Fish Sandwich

Bermuda Fish Sarnie

Deep-fried fillets of local fish (wahoo, rockfish, snapper) piled on toasted raisin bread or whole-wheat toast with tartar sauce, lettuce, tomato, coleslaw, and optional 'the works' (grilled Bermuda onions, cheese, hot sauce); considered a national obsession in Bermuda

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Hoppin' John

Peas and Plenty

A rice and black-eyed peas dish cooked with onions, salt pork, bacon, and sometimes chouriço sausage; eaten on New Year's Day for prosperity; a Bermuda picnic and gathering staple

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Johnny Bread

Johnny Bread

Sweet, scone-like bread made from flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, milk, and eggs; traditionally cooked in a cast-iron skillet on the stovetop; served with codfish breakfast or with butter, jam, honey, or cheese

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Malasadas

Malasadas

Portuguese-style doughnuts made from yeast dough, fried until golden, and coated with sugar; celebrated during Portuguese heritage events and widely loved by Bermudians; a Bermudian-Portuguese dessert. Bermudian bakeries fry these Portuguese-style yeasted doughnuts and dust them while warm.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Massa Sovada

Pão Doce

Enriched sweet bread made with flour, eggs, milk, sugar, butter, and yeast; light and fluffy like brioche; served at Portuguese Holy Spirit festivals (Festa do Divino Espírito Santo); a Bermudian-Portuguese specialty. Bermudian Portuguese families serve this sweet, enriched bread at holidays and family tables.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Mussel Pie

Mussel Pie

Curried mussel meat with potatoes, onions, bacon, thyme, and vegetables baked in a flaky pastry crust; a traditional Cup Match cricket festival food, often served with mayonnaise dolloped inside The named Bermuda pie packs local mussels into a savoury pastry filling.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Onion

A large, flat, sweet onion variety introduced in 1616; once Bermuda's major export crop, earning the island the nickname 'The Onion Patch' and Bermudians the nickname 'Onions'; used in fish chowder, onion soup, and many dishes; a national icon.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Portuguese Red Bean Soup

Portuguese Red Bean Soup

A hearty tomato-based soup with red kidney beans, chouriço sausage, Bermuda onions, potatoes, kale, red wine, chicken broth, and seasonings; introduced by Azorean immigrants in the mid-1800s; a Bermudian-Portuguese dish. Bermuda's Portuguese community serves it as a thick bean soup with linguiça and vegetables.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Raisin Bread

Raisin Bread

A sweet Bermuda yeast bread generously studded with raisins, traditionally baked in long loaves and served with butter or cheese.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Rum Swizzle

Rum Swizzle

Bermuda's national cocktail made with Gosling's Black Seal and Gold Seal rums, orange juice, pineapple juice, lime juice, falernum syrup, and Angostura bitters; swizzled with a swizzle stick until frothy; created at the Swizzle Inn in 1932

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Shark Hash

St. David's Island Shark Hash

Bermuda shark hash is a St. David's Island preparation of boiled, ground shark seasoned with onions, peppers, herbs, and spices. Availability depends on lawful local practice.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Sweet Potato Pudding

Guy Fawkes Pudding

Traditional Guy Fawkes Night (November 5th) dessert made from grated and boiled sweet potatoes, butter, sugar, eggs, milk, spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves), and sometimes raisins; baked until set and served hot at bonfire celebrations; a Bermudian tradition.

🇵🇹Portugal

Bolinhos de Bacalhau

Crisp salt cod and potato fritters, a national snack found in every tasca.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Bread and Butter Pudding

Buttered bread layered with sultanas, soaked in an egg custard and baked until the top corners crisp and the middle sets.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Caldo Verde

Creamy potato soup ribboned with collard greens and a slice of chouriço.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Callaloo

Amaranth leaves steamed down with onion, tomato, thyme and scotch bonnet, eaten at breakfast with dumplings or as a side.

🇵🇹Portugal

Chouriço

Chouriço de Portalegre

Smoked pork sausage seasoned with garlic, paprika, and red wine.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Christmas Cake

A dark fruit cake fed with brandy over weeks, then covered with marzipan and hard royal or fondant icing.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Christmas Pudding

A dense steamed pudding of dried fruit, suet, spice and brandy, made weeks ahead, steamed again on the day and flamed at the table.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Conch Chowder

Conch simmered with tomato, potato, carrot, celery and thyme into a red soup finished with a splash of sherry pepper sauce.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Conch Fritters

Minced conch folded into a peppery batter with onion and sweet pepper and dropped in oil as golf-ball fritters.