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Bahamian Cuisine
Bahamian cuisine refers to the foods and beverages of The Bahamas. It includes seafood such as fish, shellfish, lobster, crab, and conch, as well as tropical fruits, rice, peas, pigeon peas, and pork. Popular seasonings commonly used in dishes include chilies (hot pepper), lime, tomatoes, onions, garlic, allspice, ginger, cinnamon, rum, and coconut. Rum-based beverages are popular on the islands. Since the Bahamas consist of a multitude of islands, notable culinary variations exist. Bahamian cuisine is somewhat related to that of the American South, with dishes held in common such as "fish 'n' grits". A large portion of Bahamian foodstuffs are imported (''cf.'' economy of the Bahamas). International cuisine is offered, especially at hotels. Many specialty dishes are available at roadside stands, beach side, and in fine dining establishments. In contrast to the offerings in the city of Nassau and in the many hotels, "shack" type food stands/restaurants (including Goldies and Twin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goombay
Goombay is a form of Bahamian music and a drum used to create it. The drum is a membranophone made with goat skin and played with the hands. The term Goombay has also symbolized an event in the Bahamas, for a summer festival with short parades known as ‘Junkanoo’. The goombay name has also evolved to become synonymous with local Afro-Caribbean music related to Calypso music, calypso. In The Bahamas, its most famous practitioner in modern times was Blake Alphonso Higgs, Alphonso 'Blind Blake' Higgs, who performed at the Nassau International Airport for many years. The Goombay Dance Band help to popularise the musical style in the West in the early 1980s. Their single, "Seven Tears (song), Seven Tears", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in March 1982. Discography ''Bahamas Goombay 1951 - 1959'' (Frémeaux et Associés FA5302, 2011) See also *Coconut Grove Goombay Festival, Florida *Fantasy Fest, Key West, Florida *Bahamian cuisine (for dishes and beverages named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalik
Kalik is a Bahamian brand of beer. It is made by the ''Commonwealth Brewery'' in Nassau which also produces Heineken, Guinness and Vitamalt. The original Kalik is a lager with 5% alc./vol. It was designed by Heineken International in 1988, based on studies of the Bahamian market. It seized market leadership from Beck's, which had dominated the local market before. Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs. November 22, 2006. Retrieved on October 5, 2007. According to the bottle label the name of Kalik is derived from sound of cowbells heard during the annual Bahamian festival of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Rock, Bahamas
High Rock is a former district of the Bahamas. It corresponds roughly to the current district of East Grand Bahama East Grand Bahama is a district of the Bahamas, situated on the eastern part of the island of Grand Bahama. The local government seat for the district is in the settlement of High Rock, a fairly small town. It is situated approximately east of t .... The Bahamian Brewery makes a High Rock beer. Former districts of the Bahamas {{Bahamas-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassau Royale
Nassau Royale is a liqueur made by Bacardi. It is popular in Nassau, Bahamas, and Bahamian cuisine. The liqueur is used with whipped bananas and cream to top the Banana Royal A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distingu ... dessert. Youngstown Vindicator - Nov 28, 1968 page 27 References Liqueurs Bahamian cuisine {{distilled-beverage-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Bird (cocktail)
Yellow bird is a Caribbean cocktail. History The origins of the ''yellow bird'' name is unclear. Some sources mention that the cocktail was named after the Haitian tune " Yellow Bird", that was first rewritten in English in 1957 that became a sort of national anthem of the Caribbean due to the popularity of Harry Belafonte's recording. Hawaiian singer Arthur Lyman, one of the influencers of the tiki culture's exotica Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II. The term was coined by Simon "Si" Waronker, Liberty Records ... music, released a version of the song which rose to number four in July 1961 on the Billboard charts and was played weekly at Shell Bar in The Hawaii Village, a possible birthplace of the cocktail. Others argue that it was not named after the song and obtains the name from its sunny color resulting from Galliano, a go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Juice
The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from outer space. In the field of astronomy, the sky is also called the celestial sphere. This is an abstract sphere, concentric to the Earth, on which the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars appear to be drifting. The celestial sphere is conventionally divided into designated areas called constellations. Usually, the term ''sky'' informally refers to a perspective from the Earth's surface; however, the meaning and usage can vary. An observer on the surface of the Earth can see a small part of the sky, which resembles a dome (sometimes called the ''sky bowl'') appearing flatter during the day than at night. In some cases, such as in discussing the weather, the sky refers to only the lower, denser layers of the atmosphere. The daytime sky appears blue because air molecules scatter shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
