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The Creole cuisine of Réunion is the food, culinary technique and typical dishes of the island of Réunion, France's dependency in the Indian Ocean. It is identified as Creole cuisine (in French, Créole ) because it is a mixture of eating habits and colonial culinary customs with native ingredients.
Creole comes from the Portuguese crioulo, from the verb 'to raise.' [6] In French, the term is créole.The word can refer to many things, but all of these things are the product of the mixing of three continents: the creole languages are a mix between a European language, a Native American language, and the languages brought by enslaved Africans.
It is not known exactly how many people of each ethnicity live in La Réunion, since the French census does not ask questions about ethnic origin, [79] which applies in La Réunion because it is a part of France in accordance with the 1958 constitution. The extent of racial mixing on the island also makes ethnic estimates difficult.
A dish from the Chilean archipelago of Chiloé might just be one of the world's oldest recipes. Archaeologists found a 6,000-year old cooking pit there with what held an early form of curanto, a ...
Réunion Creole is the main vernacular of the island and is used in most colloquial and familiar settings. It is, however, in a state of diglossia with French as the high language – Réunion Creole is used in informal settings and conversations, while French is the language of writing, education, administration and more formal conversations.
Chinois, also referred to by the Réunion Creole name Sinwa or Sinoi, are ethnic Chinese residing in Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. [5] [6] As of 2000, [7] roughly 25,000 or more lived on the island, making them one of the region's largest Chinese communities along with Chinese South Africans, Chinese people in Madagascar, and Sino-Mauritians.
According to writer and food scholar Dr. Scott Alves Barton, “Yams are considered to be the most common African staple aboard Middle Passage ships; some estimates say 100,000 yams fed 500 ...
Sainte-Suzanne (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t syzan]) is a commune on the north coast of the French island and department of Réunion, an island located approximately 950 km (590 mi) east of the island of Madagascar.