03 Cultural, Culinary Delights
Fresh seafood, breadfruit, and green figs, infused with the island’s tropical flavors are the staples of St. Lucia cuisine. Caribbean spices add color and unique flavor to the island’s rustic offerings, which are based on St. Lucia’s diverse blend of African, French, British, and Indian cultural history. Local divers hand-spear and deliver an island specialty, fresh lobsters, to many local restaurants. Green figs, which are St. Lucia’s main cash crop, have been a staple in local cuisine for centuries. Most restaurants serve the national dish, green figs, and saltfish, as well as lambi, tasty conch shellfish in a spicy Caribbean sauce. Don’t leave without tasting the St. Lucian rum punch, a mixture of orange juice, nutmeg, angostura bitters, cinnamon, and delicious rum. Foodies will appreciate one of the available tours around a cocoa, coconut, or banana plantation.
