Friday, March 18, 2011


Caribbean Spoon Cooking Class

African Diaspora
Over a period of almost four centuries, four million Africans were transported to North America and the Caribbean Islands in the Atlantic slave trade. Captured from their homeland and separated from their tribes and families they were enslaved in a new world, where all familiar customs were absent.
The African Diaspora is the story of how Africans, though scattered & dispersed, managed to retain their traditions and reform their identities in a new world. Elements of African culture such as religion, language, and folklore endured and were their links to their past lives. In the process of Americanization, Africans formed another culture known as Afro-Americans or Creoles.

 

About Caribbean Spoon  Our Mission

Caribbean Spoon Cuisine is dedicated to the promotion of the food ways and related issues of culture of people of African descent around the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Caribbean Spoon Cuisine will document, and by extension, teach about the diverse cuisines of the African Diaspora and out of necessity African, Indigenous, and European foodways that left their indelible marks upon them.

Today’s Menu
SALAD
  • Green papaya salad with a citrus ginger vinaigrette
MAIN COURSE
  • Pargo fish fillet with a coconut cream Caribbean sauce
  • PATACONES from green fried plantains
  • ButteRnut Squash puree
  • Whole wheat rice with vegetable broth and lemon grass aroma
DESSERT
  • GRILLED pineapple with vanilla ice cream and a ginger rum sauce
BEVERAGE
  • Traditional Ginger Ale


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