Jade Lindo

Thesis title:

Creolising Caribbean Foodways: Breadfruit from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

Using detailed case studies and substantial new archival research, this doctoral project will investigate how the enslaved inherited and navigated the arrival of the breadfruit. This process resulted in a diet that correlated to the environment of enslavement and ultimately translated into traditional cuisine. The project will anchor its findings within a primary focus of the diet of Black Caribbean women due to their first-hand experience with the cultivation, consumption and integration of breadfruit within the agricultural development of provision grounds.