Rich dark cakes popular around Christmas. A primary ingredients is dried fruit that has been steeped or soaked in rum or wine for long periods of time (sometimes years). The dried fruit is usually some combination of raisins, prunes, cherries, and candied fruit peel. The cakes get their dark colour from browning or burnt sugar.

A fried bread typically made from baking powder leavened dough.

An ice cream bar on a stick

A rich dessert made from caramelised condensed milk, sugar, and peanuts or raisins.

To be mature, but not yet ripe (as relates to fruit or agricultural produce).

A meal made by slow cooking seasoned cornmeal. The meal is stirred or turned as it is cooked.

Pigeon peas.

Pork cooked with geera (cumin seeds)

Clarified butter

A baked desert with a flaky, but firm crust and a filling made from sweetened grated coconut.

A rich spicy soup made with goat meat as the main ingredient. Usually the goat's head (and sometimes tripe and testicles) is used. The soup is considered to be an aphrodisiac.

Ambarella. An edible fruit growing on large trees up to 30m. The fruits have thick, sometimes leathery skin and dendritic (fibrous or hairy) seeds. While unripe, the flesh is crisp and firm with a tart acidic taste. As it ripens, it turns yellow, becomes soft and develops a sweet taste and fragrant smell. Both ripe and unripe fruits can be eaten raw. It is also often prepared by juicing, stewing with ginger and sugar, pickling with peppers and spices, or made into chow.

A fruit related to the passion fruit, but with a hard green skin. They are significantly sweeter than passion fruits.

Heineken beer

A large fulfilling meal.

White rum

A candy made from guava paste or puree that has been boiled with sugar until thick, cooled, then cut into squares or shapes.

A dish consisting of mixed meat stewed with capers, olives, raisins and prunes, wrapped in cornmeal, then wrapped in banana or plantain leaves and boiled.

Bread that is crusty on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside

A homemade frozen pop popular with children. It is made by pouring mixed drinks into small transparent plastic bags, tying the bags to seal them, and freezing. They are normally consumed by sucking a small hole bitten in one corner of the bag.

Any frozen, non milk-based, drink bar on a stick

A green or bluish green peppermint candy

A homemade frozen pop popular with children. It is made by pouring mixed drinks into small transparent plastic bags, tying the bags to seal them, and freezing. They are normally consumed by sucking a small hole bitten in one corner of the bag.

Commercially produced drinks or juice packaged in plastic bags.

A very hard, flat, semi-sweet biscuit made with coconut, flour, sugar, and spices.

A fried sweet made from flour. They are usually bright orange or yellow, but can also be made white. It has a chewy texture, with a crystallized sugary crunch. The sugars get partly fermented, which is what adds flavor to the dish.

An extremely potent overproof rum with a fearsome reputation. It is sold under-the-counter (illegally) and usually available during sugar harvest time.

An extremely potent overproof rum with a fearsome reputation. It is sold under-the-counter (illegally) and usually available during sugar harvest time.

The soft flesh of a young coconut

A young coconut where the flesh has not completely hardened.

The liquid inside a coconut

A style of cooking where meat, wet marinated or dry-rubbed, is slowly cooked over a smoky heat source. The seasoning is traditionally very spicy and features pimento and scotch bonnet peppers as primary ingredients.

Meat prepared by jerking. i.e. wet marinated or dry rubbed then slowly cooked over a smoky heat source.

Ambarella. An edible fruit growing on large trees up to 30m. The fruits have thick, sometimes leathery skin and dendritic (fibrous or hairy) seeds. While unripe, the flesh is crisp and firm with a tart acidic taste. As it ripens, it turns yellow, becomes soft and develops a sweet taste and fragrant smell. Both ripe and unripe fruits can be eaten raw. It is also often prepared by juicing, stewing with ginger and sugar, pickling with peppers and spices, or made into chow.

A fried bread typically made from baking powder leavened dough.

A fried bread typically made from baking powder leavened dough.

A gelatinous candy.

A gelatinous candy.

A traditional dish made primarily from green pigeon peas. The peas are cooked with salt meat (beef or pork). The stock is poured off, then the peas and meat are minced. Seasonings and small amounts of corn flour are added, then the mixture is cooked again. The resulting casserole is often served with butter and is popular around the Christmas holiday season.

A homemade frozen pop popular with children. It is made by pouring mixed drinks into small transparent plastic bags, tying the bags to seal them, and freezing. They are normally consumed by sucking a small hole bitten in one corner of the bag.