Tobagonian food is dominated by a wide selection of seafood dishes, most notably, curried crab and dumplings, and Tobago is also known for its sumptuously prepared provisions, soups and stews, also known as blue food across the country.

Top 10 French foods – with recipes

• Soupe à l’oignon. This is a traditional French soup made of onions and beef stock, usually served with croutons and melted cheese on top.
• Coq au vin.
• Cassoulet.
• Boeuf bourguignon.
• Chocolate soufflé
• Flamiche.
• Confit de canard.
• Salade Niçoise.

The French brought Masquerade Balls to Trinidad which were mimicked by ex-slaves after Abolition of Slavery, and calypso competitions at Carnival grew in popularity, especially after the abolition of slavery in 1834. Calypso drew upon African and French influences, and became the voice of the people.

UK in Trinidad and Tobago – British High Commission, Port of Spain. Traditional British food and drink, from afternoon tea to fish and chips to yorkshire pudding, cornish pasties and roast beef… Traditional British food and drink, from afternoon tea to fish and chips to yorkshire pudding, cornish pasties and roast beef …

It was during the African slave trade that culinary influence from West Africa came to the Caribbean. The foods used were plantain, pigeon peas, taro or dasheen, breadfruit, ackee, dasheen bush (taro leaves), okra, mango and saltfish.

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Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean, thanks to its large reserves of oil and gas, the exploitation of which dominates its economy.

In case you’re wondering, zaboca is Trini speak for avocado.

zaboca – Caribbean Dictionary. Avocado. Edible pear shaped or round fruit with an egg shaped seed.

The English word avocado is a transliteration first used in the late 1600s of the Spanish word aguacate, which came from the Nahuatl name for the indigenous fruit, āhuacatl.

Regional names The fruit is sometimes called an avocado pear or alligator pear (due to its shape and the rough green skin of some cultivars). The Nahuatl āhuacatl can be compounded with other words, as in ahuacamolli, meaning avocado soup or sauce, from which the Spanish word guacamole derives.

avocado, also called alligator pear, fruit of Persea americana of the family Lauraceae, a tree native to the Western Hemisphere from Mexico south to the Andean regions. Avocado fruits have greenish or yellowish flesh with a buttery consistency and a rich, nutty flavour.

Bowls shaped like avocados have been found in Mayan, Toltec and Aztec temples. Over the years, the avocado has been called an alligator pear, custard apple, butter pear and vegetable pear. The name alligator pear originated from a specimen that has a rough skin similar to the hide of our Everglades beast of the swamps.

The name “alligator” is probably an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for “the lizard”, which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included allagarta and alagarto.

Avocado is a green, pear-shaped fruit often called an “alligator pear.” It is loaded with healthy fats, fiber and various important nutrients.

When the Aztecs discovered the avocado in 500 BC, they named it āhuacatl, which translates to “testicle.” It is likely that the texture, shape, and size of the fruit, as well as the way it grows in pairs, inspired the name of the avocado.