Food and Christmas

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Where do you begin to discuss food? Food is an integral part of a nation's culture, and as such I have dedicated a page to the Saint Lucian foods that I love. There are a large number of web sites where you can find recipes for these dishes, of which I have added links to a few for convenience.

Saint Lucian Christmas is also a very special time and one of my very favourites. I hope you find that a few memories are brought to the fore.

Saint Lucian Foods
National dish - salt fish & green figs	Black pudding	Accra & Bake	Souse	Fish bouillon	Red beans and dumplings	Callaloo
Breadfruit	Yam, tania, dasheen	Cornmeal in banana leaves (paymee)	Pepperpot	Roti	Dahl puri	See also Saint Lucian Christmas


Saint Lucian Sweet Things
Coconut tablet	Guava Cheese	Guava jam	Tamarind balls	Tamarind caramel	Comfort & Bull	Seawet Jam
Mauby	Seamoss


Saint Lucian Christmas
Sorrel	Eggnog	Ginger beer	Peanut punch	Rum	Cheval Bois
Lunch at Auntie Sonia's	Snow on the Mountain	Poinsettia	Ham	Midnight mass	Paille Banane
Black cake	Descriptions of Saint Lucian Christmas traditions	Short on-line book about a Saint Lucian Christmas: One Day in Three Sixty-five, by Dawn French	A "letter" reminiscing about Assou Square, Paille Banane and Papa Jab.	"Baye Jab-la manger yon tee manmaye, yon day twar tee mammaye"	Read about Papa Jab and the men who played him, including "Toes".

This page was last updated by Penny Kilbane on 30-Jan-2005.