Middle Caicos food - always to remember
As regular supermarkets are not available on Middle Caicos guests have 2 choices when it comes to groceries. (1) After clearing customs you can catch a cab and take a short ride into town and do most of your shopping at either the Island Pride or IGA supermarket ( the IGA is a longer ride, but the produce section is as good as anything you see at home). (2) You can save time and avoid shopping for everything but canned goods, produce and perishables by packing a 60-70 qt. cooler filled with frozen meats, veggies, butter, berries, shrimp, appetizers, liquor, etc., making sure it weighs 70 lbs. or less. The Carib West liquor store is almost across the street from Island Pride so a stop there on the way to the supermarket will take care of any liquor purchases you need to make. Mom + Pop stores are available on Middle with eggs, potatoes, soda, canned goods, rice, long life milk,and flour usually available. Many of you have heard about the magic of Middle Caicos and some have even experienced the wonders of this magnificent place. Its breathtaking views, nature trails, caves, Loyalist ruins and Arawak ancestors have lured the more adventurous to these lustrous shores. But few have thought of Middle as a cornucopia of culinary delights. Well, that may be a stretch if your taste buds froth for international fare, but if your belly’s set for good home cooking, then this is the place to pull up a chair. Unlike Provo, Middle Caicos is blessed with a bit of rain here and again and soils that sustain a crop or two. Or maybe it’s the ages old ingenuity and intuition of the local folk that inspire the plants to produce. Either way, you’d be duly impressed to see how their gardens grow. From medicinal herbs to majestic fruit trees, Middle’s form of agriculture is a cultural feast to behold. And what a feast it is! Cassava, okra and guava, tamarinds, sapidillas and sugar apples, to name just a few. But the cornerstone of their crops is corn. Home is where the heart is when it comes to Middle Caicos. Home grown and home ground that is, as they use the pearly hearts to make their fabulous grits. Once harvested, the corn is dried and the kernals stripped from the cob. These are then ground with hand grinders, once for coarse, twice for a fine grind. Next, the laborious process of “fanning” the grits to release the chaff. Fanning involves the use of a specially made shallow rim basket, locally known as a fanner basket. In this vessel, the grits are tossed and turned with the lighter chaff blowing away in the breeze.
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