
Barbados
Bakes
Rounds of sweet or plain dough fried until golden and puffed, eaten at breakfast with fish cakes or cheese.
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Barbados
Rounds of sweet or plain dough fried until golden and puffed, eaten at breakfast with fish cakes or cheese.

Bahamas
Grated cassava pressed of its liquid and baked into a flat, dense bread — the oldest bread on the islands.

Guyana
Bitter cassava grated, pressed dry in a woven matapee and baked on a griddle into a large, flat, hard disc.

Dominica
Cassava Bread
Traditional bread made from cassava; a staple of the Kalinago, the island's Indigenous people; the use of root crops like cassava formed the base of what would become national staples; dishes like cassava bread and farine were common; the cassava bread of Dominica; a link to the island's Indigenous heritage; a rustic, gluten-free flatbread.

Jamaica
Johnny cake
Round of flour dough fried until it puffs and browns, split and filled with saltfish, callaloo or fried plantain for breakfast.

Grenada
Fry Bake
Fried bread dough, golden brown and puffy; the standard breakfast bread of Grenada; served with saltfish souse, cheese, sausage, or shark

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
A Vincentian arrowroot bake or bread, dense and lightly sweet, made from arrowroot flour and coconut. It reflects the island's long-standing arrowroot-growing and milling tradition.

Saint Lucia
Bakes
Fried bread, also referred to as floats; rounds of dough that are normally deep fried, with a texture somewhere between a bread roll and a doughnut; the element of a Saint Lucia breakfast; sometimes served with the national dish; often split open with a filling like a sandwich; the bakes of Saint Lucia; a breakfast staple.