The Virgin Islands are spicy and hearty. Most of their food are imported since they have poor quality of soil. Finding familiar food won’t be hard but restaurants put a tropical twist into North American dishes. An example of this is the addition of mango and Caribbean spices to salmon, a non-tropical fish. Famous dishes would be fungi cornmeal with okra boiled to a thick consistency. It is eaten with boiled fish or saltfish. Callaloo- soup made from callaloo bush/leaf, often substituted with spinach. It consists of Meat and okra added boiled to a thick stew consistency. Fruits consumed in the Virgin Islands include: sour apple, mango, papaya, soursop, genip, sea grapes, tamarinds and goose berries. Pate-(Pronounced PAH-TEH),fried bread with various meats including beef, chicken and saltfish stuffed inside. Johnny cake (‘journey cake’) is also a popular pastry. As for the drinks, you must try the bush tea, maubi and sorrel.
