The Pepper-Pot Woman at the Philadelphia Market by painter John Lewis Krimmel. “The negro-woman lamented the ravages of the fever, because it prevented the sale of her pepper-pot,” wrote a traveler in 1803. The Philadelphia recipe called for tripe, ox feet, or other cheap cuts cooked with herbs, onions, potatoes, & okra which is an African plant. Traditional and vegan Caribbean Pepper-pot recipes below.
There are several traditions that have influenced Caribbean and North American cooking that can be traced back to the Arawak or Taino-Arawak Indians whose communities extended from the Bahamas to the coast of Venezuela. The greatest concentration of the Arawak was within the larger Caribbean islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. Arawak women planted and harvested the fields and prepared the food. Barbecuing and seasonings are the aspects of Arawak cookery most relevant to the development of Caribbean and by extension North American cuisine as illustrated in the Krimmel painting above. Arawak women did a lot of non-sauce barbecuing of meat on green wood grills they called brabacots, the Spanish translated the word to barbacoa, from which we get the English word barbecue. Arawak women seasoned their food (sweet potatoes, cassava, corn, peanuts, peppers, beans, and arrowroot) with generous amounts of chili and allspice, a mildly sharp spice from the brown berry of the tropical American myrtaceous tree (the pimento in Jamaica). They also used annatto seeds to color and flavor oils and sauces. All this talk about spices makes me think of a pepper pot. Here are links to pepper-pot recipes, one traditional and the other vegetarian:
Traditional pepper-pot recipe: http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/caribbean/pepprpot.html
Vegetarian pepper-pot recipe:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/21/1434885/vegetarian-recipe-caribbean-veggie.html
Upcoming lecture March, 30, 2010
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie
Long Island University Brooklyn Campus
Speaking about
“Black and Latino Relations in New York 1959-2008”
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Health Sciences Building, Room 121.
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