Christmas Food
A dish made of slow-cooked local beef seasoned with onion, garlic, and scotch bonnet consumed in the Cayman Islands.
What is Cayman-style beef?
The sweet, gingery, wine-hued Jamaican drink often enjoyed around Christmas.
What is sorrel?
The name of the activity involving Caymanians carrying ‘ground baskets’, woven from leaves of thatch palm trees, brimming with powder-white sand from the beaches.
What is backing sand?
The town where Jesus was born.
What is Bethlehem?
The country where Christmas was banned from 1969 until 1998 after the leader declared it to be atheist.
What is Cuba?
These traditional Caymanian desserts can be made with a variety of starchy vegetables and fruits, including cassava, yam, and breadfruit.
What are heavy cakes?
What are eggs?
A broom made out of this fragrant herb would be used to sweep the yard to prepare for Christmas in the Cayman Islands.
What is rosemary?
The three gifts given to Jesus by the Wise Men.
What are gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
The holiday originated in the United Kingdom during the Middle Ages. It was the day when the alms box, collection boxes for the poor often kept in churches, were traditionally opened so that the contents could be distributed to those in need.
What is Boxing Day?
What are pasteles?
The main ingredient in a spicy drink enjoyed in Guyana during the holidays of
What is ginger?
“Festival of ______” is celebrated in St. Lucia on National Day, December 13th, the Feast of Saint Luce, Patron Saint of Light. The festival celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good overcoming evil and the renewal of life.
What is the Festival of Light?
Who is David?
The spice that would be used in decoration of 19th-century Antiguan quadrille parties and is also a primary ingredient in jerk seasoning.
What is allspice or pimento?
In Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and several other Caribbean countries, this starchy fruit is the main ingredient in cheese pie.
What is breadfruit?
The francophone country in which kremas/cremasse, a drink heavily spiced and spiked with rum, is enjoyed during the holidays.
What is Haiti?
The number of days before Christmas when Vincentians awake in the early hours of the morning and partake in a range of activities, among them sea baths, dances (or in local parlance, fetes), bicycle riding and street concerts.
What is nine?
What is the decree for a census by Caesar Augustus?
The century in which Junkanoo, a festival celebrated in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Belize, was said to have originated.
What is the eighteenth century?
The country where a steaming cup of té de jengibre is enjoyed around the holidays.
What is the Dominican Republic?
The tools used by Moko Jumbie, the spirit dancer ingrained in the cultural heritage of the U.S. Virgin Islands, to make them appear abnormally tall.
What are stilts?
What is “Do not be afraid”?
This pirate and his crew celebrated Christmas. They were said to have ‘went to a small island and cleaned, and spent their Christmas ashore, drinking and carousing as long as they had any liquor left.”
Who is Captain John ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham?