Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2016 — 25th Anniversary Edition

Try these Tobago specials
Baked goods: cassava pone, sweetbread,
fruit/black cake, coconut bake (often eaten
at breakfast with buljol or cheese)
Benne balls & sweets: a delightful, if
somewhat jaw-breaking, confection made
of sesame seeds. More sweets: toolum,
soursop fudge, guava cheese, pawpaw balls,
shaddock candy, tamarind balls, sugar
cake, cashew cake, ice-cream and desserts
flavoured with fruit, coconut and even Guinness!
Blue food: any ground provision or root
vegetable (yam, eddoes, dasheen, sweet
potatoes, cassava, tannia, potatoes, topi
tambu, et al)
Crab-and-dumpling: a savoury dish in
which the crab is stewed with curry and
coconut milk and served over flat flour
dumplings. Tobago’s signature; delicious
and extremely filling
Drinks & fresh juices: squash (made
from lime and lemon juice), sorrel, mauby,
ginger beer, coconut water, sea-moss,
barbadine, soursop, rum punch, bush teas,
wines made from local fruits, rum, beer
Fillings: salt-fish buljol, tomato choka,
black pudding
Seafood: lobster, mahi mahi, marlin,
conch, king fish, red snapper, tilapia, chip
chip, squid, oysters... If you can, opt for
the most sustainably produced fish, or a
vegetarian option — some fish stocks are
dangerously low in our local waters, and
the balance of our eco-system is at risk as
a result
Fruit: mangoes, passion fruit, cashew,
grapefruit, orange, portugals, shaddock,
pommerac, pommecythere/golden apple,
chennette/guineps, guava, melons, five
fingers/carambola, sapodilla, soursop, pawpaw/papaya,
pineapple, tamarind, peewah,
chataigne
Herbs and spices: nutmeg, clove, garlic,
ginger, chadon beni, peppers, roucou/annatto,
bay, anise, thyme, lemon/fever grass,
spring onion
Oil-down: breadfruit with salted meat
and boiled down in coconut milk
Snacks: doubles, souse, pastelles, roti
Yabba & other soups: thick soup with
dumpling, fish, pigtail, potato, breadfruit,
cassava, dasheen, green banana and
almost anything! More soups: callaloo, sancoche,
cow-heel, corn soup, and fish broth.
Tobago
is famous
for its curried crab.
Photo courtesy the Division of
Tourism & Transportation
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