I had an inappropriately good time recently at the United Nations commemoration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It's their own fault, I figure, for hiring awesome dancers from the Cameroonian National Ballet and putting out a phenomenal spread of "Diaspora foods".
In between conch fritters, fried plantains and Haitian black rice, we even got to listen to a lecture on African and Caribbean foodways from NYU food scholar Scott Barton. Meow.
This is what it looked like:
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| Pickled hot peppers (Senegal) |
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| Antigua & Barbuda! |
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| Cameroonian dancer ... care of UN Photo |
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| Plantains (Colombia) |
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| Suriname! |
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| Fruit cake (Suriname) | | | |
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| Cameroon! |
