Haiti Food Adventures

For years, I only ate Caribbean Apricot as a jam that I spread on crackers. But ever since I discovered the "raw" fruit,...

Mango season is upon us to Haiti. And with it come endless varieties of mangos that you are invited to discover with us ...

Plantain trees seem to grow everywhere and anywhere. This is the story of our battle against and later our love for plan...

Yes, I have indeed swam in a watercress plant. Never would I have imagined that this herb that we eat on a regular basis...

Coconut, this fruit is the perfect complement to a nice sunny day under the beach. We eat it fresh in many forms and hav...

As a child, I was tempted to eat oysters because they were said to hide pearls, but could not erase the stories I had be...

This article gives you a peak of what actual coffee cherries looks like before they make their way into your morning cup...

This article celebrates the joy that comes from drinking freshly squeezed fruit from one's own garden in Haiti...

Passion fruit, the dreaded vine I didn't want planted in our house for the stories I had been told, now produces dozens ...

This article explains the steps of turning our locally grown cocoa into Haitian Chocolate, better known as chokola peyi,...

For the 20+ years I have been eating peanuts, I had never once imagined that these nuts actually come from the ground as...

Cherries, those small acidic fruits that earned us many scolding as children. Their juice is extremely popular in Haiti....

There is nothing quite like our "epis lakay" which makes our food spicy, robust and pungent....

Avocado season means this fruit is sold everywhere in Haiti. Our avocado tree has dozens of fruits, yet I am frustrated ...

This tells the story of a child who would rather eat a green guava than a ripe one, for she was terrified of the pinkish...

A Haitian meal is never served without diri, rice in Creole. From Monday to Sunday, this grain finds its way to the tabl...

Quenepes, better known as Spanish limes in English, are fruits that are typically harvested and sold on the streets of H...

Kalbasik, small green fruits from the calabash family with a hard shell that is typically opened in Haiti using a doorwa...

Labapin are from the breadfruit family but not to be confused with lame veritable. They make for an excellent and fillin...

Haiti's peaches even when not fully ripe are a delight. We made this discovery when we handpicked a peach from our tree ...

Loquat, a tangy yet sweet fruit which grows in the mountains of Haiti where the weather is cooler. They alleviated my ho...

Tamarind, fleshy, juicy and acidulous fruit that made it to my prohibited fruit list for the many rules I had to break a...

Mandarins, fruits which made a four year old learn the hard way that everything should be eaten in moderation....

The lakou lakay section of includes presentations of the fruits of my home garden to help you understand Haiti's gastron...

Lambi are sea snails that are popular in our Haitian cuisine. A la creole, au gratin, grilled or boucane, they are the d...

Corn on the cob in the form of mayi boukannen (griled corn) or mayi bouyi (boiled corn) are popular during the rainy sea...

Lame Veritable which real name is "breadfruit" is a Haitian vegetable eaten boiled, fried, like pressed plantains or eve...

This piment bouc story is about the one ingredient that gives our Haitian cuisine its personality, and the one ingredien...

The beauty of Haitian cooking is that we don't always rely on traditional cooking measuring tools. We use a variety of t...

The Haitian Pilon is an essential utensils found in most Haitian kitchens to smash seasonings. Its use seems to also add...

This is the exact chorus I used to sing loudly at home when I found out that diri djondjon would be featured on the menu...

One of the greatest pleasures of mountain life in Haiti is to be able to stop along the way during a walk to enjoy natur...