Caribbean Spices and Flavors

Experiencing a variety of Caribbean flavors is an excellent way to get acquainted with the history of the place. Through various culinary elements, every meal is a multi-cultural experience. It all works together to create delicious dishes that include features introduced by colonizers.

The Caribs and Arawaks add hot and mild chilies, allspice, roucou, and West-Indian bay leaves to smoked meat. They were the ones who trained the newcomers to this technique, which eventually earned them the name, Buccaneers. Europeans added thyme, pepper, and mustard. They planted Asian spices like cassia, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. Africans added broadleaf thyme, which is today known as West-Indian thyme. Imagine the sumptuous possibilities with all these ingredients and spices added into the dishes.

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