Local dishes such as roast breadfruit, Green Fig (which are green bananas), king fish, Manicou (possum), Souse (a soup made with pork and often cucumber), Accra (a fried dough which contains salt fish), and Bouillon (fish, chicken or meat stewed with dasheen, yams, plantains, banana and dumplings), which is less a soup and more a stew.
The locals get a faraway look in their eyes as they recount a long list of foods they plan to enjoy Perhaps, this holiday is like Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditional foods are anticipated throughout the year, and appetite finds a bedfellow with a hunger for Nationalism. I'm enjoying the addition of the colorful Madras cloth to drab Castries. Vendors sell pre-emancipation style clothing and decorations made of the bright plaids. Buildings and buses boast banners and ribbons. A van makes decorative deliveries right to your door! Although the cloth originated in India and was sold to the Lucians by the British, Madras is now an emblem of Kwéyòl heritage.
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