[Sca-cooks] Late-period Caribbean food (was Asking a favor of Phlip]

[Terry Decker]

It should be noted that plantains and bananas are of Old World origin.  I
think that the "dominicos" referred to in this paragraph are from the
bananas originally brought to the Caribbean in 1517 by Fra Tomas Berlinga
(the name may be mispelled), who later became the Bishop of Panama.  They
should be similar to the standard bananas (Cavendishes) in the supermarket
today.

Bear

>Hay unos plátanos pequeños y más delicados y blandos, que en la
>Española llaman dominicos; hay otros más gruesos y recios y colorados.
>
>There are some plantains which are small and more delicate and softer, that
>in Hispaniola are called dominicos; there are others which are larger and
>coarser and red.
>
>
>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann