Archive for the ‘Caribbean’ Category

#36 Puerto Rico: Roast Piggery of the Neighborhood?

OK, fine… so I realize that Puerto Rico isn’t technically a country, but as a self-proclaimed lover of ethnic food in New York City, I’d have to be a real jackass to disrespect Boricua cuisine. We all agree that the colony—er, I mean the “associated free state”—of Puerto Rico could be its own country, right? […]

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#13 Dominican Republic: Sammy Sosa’s Revenge

As I write this, I’m sitting at my kitchen table, nursing the worst case of indigestion I’ve had since I ate Liberian food a month or two ago.  And that’s kinda weird, since I had what I thought was a very pleasant, tame meal at a little Dominican place in Harlem called La Nueva Flor […]

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#7 Barbados: I like Cock’s

If you poke around this website, you’ll notice that my ultimate goal is to eat food from “every nation in the world” without leaving NYC, and you’ll notice that I have my eye on only about 160 nations, give or take.  But if we’re being really technical, there are actually about 196 countries on earth, […]

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#6 Jamaica: Fear the Goat

When my girlfriend casually said something about Jamaican food to a Jamaican friend of hers, the Jamaican friend insisted that we go to The Islands on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn.  After taking her advice, I can conclusively say that the Jamaican friend is awesome, and I owe her a cookie. The Islands is a very […]

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