Photo of a classic Caribbean Pepper-pot stew. The history behind the stew and the recipe are here below!
In the Caribbean, British planters quickly became the minority to African slaves. Many of the planters were so focused on returning to England wealthy that they made little effort to re-create English culture and, instead, slaves were allowed to retain and cultivate an African-American cooking aesthetic. By one estimate, “80 percent of British imports of Gold Coast slaves went to Jamaica, the largest British sugar-producing region in the eighteenth century.” In Jamaica, planters supplied slaves with weekly rations of salted fish and set small parcels of land aside for their slaves to cultivate produce and raise animals on Sundays. Slaves in Jamaica managed to raise fowl, pigs, vegetables, and rice. What slaves did not use to supplement their rations, they sold on Sunday, the traditional market day and a free day for slaves. With their earnings they purchased salted beef or pork. They then combined the meat received as rations and purchased at market with produce from their gardens to prepare a spicy creolized stew they called oglios, or pepper-pot. Today it’s a traditional dish throughout many parts of the Caribbean as well as Louisana, China, and other regions. Here is a link to Caribbean pepper-pot recipe that would be ideal as part of a Thanksgiving Day meal. For those who do not eat meat there are plenty of vegetarian meat substitutes that you can use to replace the poultry, pork, and beef in the recipe: http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/caribbean/pepprpot.html
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