CULTURES OF THE CARIBBEAN
COUNTRY MATERIAL CULTURE
Barbados Cou Cou [seasoned
cornmeal] & Flying Fish
Cuba Platillo Moros y Cristianos
[black beans, vegetables &
rice]
Dominica Mountain chicken [frog legs
& vegetables]
Callalloo soup [leafy
vegetables & coconut milk]
Guadeloupe Porc Colombo [pork &
vegetables]
Guyana Pepper pot [pork, beef &
vegetables etc.]
Haiti Griot & rice & beans [pork
with rice and peas]
Jamaica Ackee & Saltfish
St. Kitts Stewed Saltfish with
Plantain, Coconut Dumpling
& Breadfruit
St. Lucia Fig Vet e’ Lanmowi [saltfish
and green banana]
St. Vincent Roast Breadfruit & Fried
Jackfish
Trinidad Pelau [rice, vegetables &
chicken]
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NON-MATERIAL CULTURE MASS CULTURE LAST COLONISER
Bajan [English & West African] Calypso & ‘Crop Over’ [August] English
Spanish Creole [Spanish, West Salsa & ‘Carnival de Santiago de Spanish
African & Haitian] Cuba’ [July]
Kweyol [French, West African & Bouyon & ‘World Creole Music English
English] Festival’ [October]
Creole [French, West African & Zouk & Carnaval [Easter] French
Amerindian]
Rupununi [Hindi, English & Shanto [calypso & mento] & English
African] and Creole [English, Mashramani [late February]
West African & Dutch]
Kreyol Ayisyen [West African, Kompa & ‘Haitian Defile Kanaval’ French
French, Taino & Spanish] [February]
Patois [English, West African & Reggae [Reggae Sumfest] & English
Spanish] Dancehall [Sting]
Creole [English & West African] St. Kitts Music Festival [ late June] English
Creole [French, West African & Bele [funeral music] & “Jou’vert’ English
English] [July]
Creole [English & West African] Vincy Mas [late June] English
Creole [English, French, Spanish Soca & ‘Trini Carnival’ [February] English
& West African]