Introducing tropical food and tropical recipes to the world!
Name: Colombo powder (Poudre de colombo)
Eaten in: Martinique, Guadeloupe
Category: Traditional
You can find all sorts of spices in NYC stores, Zataar, curry powder, harissa, but I had never even seen the name Colombo powder before I first decided to make it. Talk about stretching one’s comfort zone. …
Name: shrimp accras (accras aux crevettes)
Eaten in: Martinique
Category: Traditional
Airy with a kick. That’s how I would describe these wonderful accras from Martinique. They are typically made with cod, but the shrimp variation is excellent. The accras manage to achieve that perfect crunchy/moist combination…
Name: Creole Shrimp
Eaten in: Haiti/Caribbean
Foodie: Linda
This dish made me realize how ridiculous it was to only stick to the same few dishes because I knew how to make them or they came easy to me. It was flavorful, with melt-in-your-mouth vegetables…
The coolest thing about Tropical Foodies is that we do not just travel geographically and explore how different people and different cultures transform the same ingredients, we also travel in history as we do get to see how past encounters or clashes
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