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Bahamian Cuisine
Bahamian cuisine refers to the foods and beverages of The Bahamas. It includes seafood such as fish, shellfish, lobster, crab, and conch, as well as tropical fruits, rice, peas, pigeon peas, and pork. Popular seasonings commonly used in dishes include chilies (hot pepper), lime, tomatoes, onions, garlic, allspice, ginger, cinnamon, rum, and coconut. Rum-based beverages are popular on the islands. Since the Bahamas consist of a multitude of islands, notable culinary variations exist. Bahamian cuisine is somewhat related to that of the American South, with dishes held in common such as "fish 'n' grits". A large portion of Bahamian foodstuffs are imported (''cf.'' economy of the Bahamas). International cuisine is offered, especially at hotels. Many specialty dishes are available at roadside stands, beach side, and in fine dining establishments. In contrast to the offerings in the city of Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau and the many hotels, "shack" type food stands/restaurants (including Go ...
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The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It comprises more than 3,000 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Nassau, The Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making ...
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Goombay
Goombay is a form of Bahamian music and a drum used to create it. The drum is a membranophone made with goat skin and played with the hands. The term Goombay has also symbolized an event in the Bahamas, for a summer festival with short parades known as ‘Junkanoo’. The goombay name has also evolved to become synonymous with local Afro-Caribbean music related to Calypso music, calypso. In The Bahamas, its most famous practitioner in modern times was Blake Alphonso Higgs, Alphonso 'Blind Blake' Higgs, who performed at the Nassau International Airport for many years. The Goombay Dance Band help to popularise the musical style in the West in the early 1980s. Their single, "Seven Tears (song), Seven Tears", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in March 1982. Discography ''Bahamas Goombay 1951 - 1959'' (Frémeaux et Associés FA5302, 2011) See also *Coconut Grove Goombay Festival, Florida *Fantasy Fest, Key West, Florida *Bahamian cuisine (for dishes and beverages name ...
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Kalik
Kalik is a Bahamas, Bahamian brand of beer. It is made by the ''Commonwealth Brewery'' in Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau which also produces Heineken Pilsener, Heineken, Guinness and Vitamalt. The original Kalik is a lager with 5% alc./vol. It was designed by Heineken International in 1988, based on studies of the Bahamian market. It seized market leadership from Beck's, which had dominated the local market before.″Remarks by Hon. Fred Mitchell MP Minister of Foreign Affairs & The Public Service″
Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs. November 22, 2006. Retrieved on October 5, 2007. According to the bottle label the name of Kalik is derived from sound of cowbells h ...
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High Rock, Bahamas
High Rock is a former district of the Bahamas. It corresponds roughly to the current district of East Grand Bahama East Grand Bahama is a district of The Bahamas, situated on the eastern part of the island of Grand Bahama, with a population collectively of 11,411 people. The local government seat for the district is in the settlement of High Rock, a fairly sm .... The Bahamian Brewery makes a High Rock beer. Former districts of the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub ...
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Nassau Royale
Nassau Royale is a liqueur made by Bacardi. It is popular in Nassau, Bahamas, and Bahamian cuisine Bahamian cuisine refers to the foods and beverages of The Bahamas. It includes seafood such as fish, shellfish, lobster, crab, and conch, as well as tropical fruits, rice, peas, pigeon peas, and pork. Popular seasonings commonly used in dishes i .... The liqueur is used with whipped bananas and cream to top the Banana Royal dessert.Bananas Tops At Nassau Hotel
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Planter's Punch
Planter's punch is an IBA Official Cocktail made of Jamaican rum, fresh lime juice, and sugar cane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ... juice. The cocktail originated in Jamaica. The September 1878 issue of the London magazine ''Fun'' listed the recipe as follows: References Cocktails with rum Jamaican drinks Bahamian cuisine Tiki drinks Sweet cocktails Sour cocktails Mixed drinks Limes (fruit) Sugar industry of Jamaica {{Mixed-drink-stub ...
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Yellow Bird (cocktail)
Yellow bird is a Caribbean cocktail. History The origins of the ''yellow bird'' name is unclear. Some sources mention that the cocktail was named after the Haitian tune " Yellow Bird", that was first rewritten in English in 1957 that became a sort of national anthem of the Caribbean due to the popularity of Harry Belafonte's recording. Hawaiian singer Arthur Lyman Arthur Hunt Lyman (February 2, 1932 – February 24, 2002) was a Hawaiian jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica. His albums ..., one of the influencers of the tiki culture's exotica music, released a version of the song which rose to number four in July 1961 on the Billboard charts and was played weekly at Shell Bar in The Hawaii Village, a possible birthplace of the cocktail. Others argue that it was not named after the song and obtains the name from its sunny color resulting from Galliano, ...
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Sky Juice
Sky juice is a Bahamian cuisine beverage combining coconut water or coconut milk, condensed milk or evaporated milk, and alcohol (especially gin but rum can be used as a substitute). Nutmeg and cinnamon can spice it up. In Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ..., sky juice is slang for plain water. References {{Portal bar, Caribbean, Drink Bahamian cuisine Cocktails Three-ingredient cocktails Cocktails with coconut Cocktails with gin ...
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Rum Punch
''Rum Punch'' is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film ''Jackie Brown'' (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino. The characters Ordell Robbie, Louis Gara, and Melanie Ralston first appeared in Leonard's novel ''The Switch'', which itself has also been adapted as a film, ''Life of Crime (film), Life of Crime'', first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes (actor), John Hawkes. Plot Set in the South Florida cities of West Palm Beach and Miami, ''Rum Punch'' follows Jackie Burke, a 44-year-old flight attendant for a bottom-rung airline, who has been smuggling illegal cash into the U.S. from Jamaica for small-time Arms trafficking, gunrunner and aspiring crime boss Ordell Robbie. When U.S. agents arrest Jackie after catching her smuggling this "dirty money", they use the threat of prison and job loss to pressure her into acting as bait in their plan to catch Ordell. Up ...
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Coconut Rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels of oak. Rum originated in the Caribbean in the 17th century, but today it is produced in nearly every major sugar-producing region of the world. Rums are produced in various grades. Light rums are commonly used in cocktails, grog or toddy whereas "golden" and "dark" rums were typically consumed straight or neat, iced ("on the rocks"), or used for cooking, but are now commonly consumed with mixers. Premium rums are made to be consumed either straight or iced. Rum plays a part in the culture of most islands of the West Indies as well as the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland, in Canada. It has associations with the Royal Navy (where it was mixed with water or beer to make grog) and piracy (where it was consumed as bumbo). Rum has served as a medium of economic exchange, used to help fund enterprises such as slavery via triangul ...
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Goombay Smash
Goombay Smash is a rum based beverage in the Bahamas. It is traditionally served in a sling or collins glass. The Goombay Smash was created by Emily Cooper, aka Miss Emily, at the Blue Bee Bar in New Plymouth. The original recipe is a secret, but it is believed to have contained coconut rum, dirty rum, apricot brandy, and pineapple juice. Imitators and variations commonly use rum, coconut and pineapple juice. Apricot liqueur is sometimes used and dark, amber or spiced rums (dirty rums) are preferred. In place of coconut rum, coconut cream can be used. Other variations include Creme de Banana, orange juice and grenadine. See also *Goombay *Bahamian cuisine Bahamian cuisine refers to the foods and beverages of The Bahamas. It includes seafood such as fish, shellfish, lobster, crab, and conch, as well as tropical fruits, rice, peas, pigeon peas, and pork. Popular seasonings commonly used in dishes i ... References {{Reflist Alcoholic drinks Bahamian cuisine Cocktails with r ...
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