Edwidge Danticat: preference

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…Why does Haiti have the very best food in the Caribbean? Well, because we just do. [laughter] I’m perhaps biased. I just have to say, overall in the Caribbean, we have amazing food. There’s wonderful food throughout the Caribbean. But Haitian food, in particular, I love because we have great spices, and even if the food is a little fad in some cases . . . you have the pikliz, which is sort of a pickled cabbage, carrots, like a spice that you sprinkle on top. For people who like meat, there’s griot, which is pork; tassot, goat. There’s stuff that, even if you’re vegan, you can like, like mais moulin, which is cornmeal. Sos pwa — I think it’s a very rich and wonderful cuisine, but I am biased. People who have not had Haitian food, if you know anybody who’s Haitian, on January 1st, go over to their house — when we can go over to people’s houses again — go for soup joumou, which is a squash soup that we drink on the first of January to celebrate Haitian independence. Why is Haitian black mushroom rice so good?…

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