-A Global History of Caribbean Food-
Congotay! Congotay!
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Winner, Best in the World in the Cook Books and Food Culture (Caribbean) Category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Yantai, China
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Congotay!
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My book and blog explore the Caribbean through the world of food and the world through the experience of Caribbean flavors. Join me as we journey through the local, every day markets and kitchens of peoples from four continents, who were transplanted to new islands in a sea of global connections.
congotay 1 n Usu. In the expression, One day, one day, congotay, indicating that the oppressed will one day be freed, that one day justice will prevail (prob. < One day will be Congo’s day) …
2 n A children’s song game … a long line of chickens protected by a “mother” from an individual saying “I must have a chick.”
congotay … congotay … n A thick paste-like meal made from cassava … Congotay … was traditionally used as a ritual food at ceremonial dances where it is served with a goat’s head sacrificed for the ancestors.
**From: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles, edited by Lise Winer (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2008).
Read Congotay! Congotay! for the sheer pleasure of discovery!
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Host, The Splendid Table from American Public Media
This richly textured and lively volume offers profound insights into the significance of food in world history and human experience – and it made me hungry.
Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine
