Carribean Cuisine and Carribean Restaurants, New York City

Caribbean cuisine is multi-cultural combining traditional ingredients such as chili peppers, taro root, corn, yams, cassava, black-eyed peas, lima beans and peanuts with foods from West Africa (okra, breadfruit and plantains) and ingredients from India, China and Europe. The islands each have varied influences, for example - the cuisines of Puerto Rico and Cuba are distinctly influenced by Spanish cuisine, the cuisines of Guadeloupe and Martinique bear French influences and Jamaican cuisine is largely African influenced. For more information on Caribbean cuisine please visit The Global Gourmet.