St Lucia Food and Rum Festival

St Lucia is famous for swaying palms, white sand, blue seas and romance, but it is also home to an annual international food and rum festival, which attracts both regionally and internationally known chefs, as well as rum connoisseurs, food critics and gourmands from across the globe.

The Festival aims to teach participants about the diversity of Caribbean food and the excellence of Caribbean rum, and with more than 24 rum companies from across the Caribbean scheduled to participate in the forthcoming event, there is certainly a lot of varieties to choose from!

The festival will take place Pigeon Point in Rodney Bay Village from January 15-18, 2009 and will include food demonstrations by several international and local chefs; rum tastings in then Rum Pavilion in town, demonstration kitchens; a cookbook shop; a cigar rolling station; rum boat cruises to the Pitons; and live musical performances from Third World, Monty Alexander and Arrow, among others.

Rodney Bay Village, the liveliest spot on the northern western part of the island offers over 20 different restaurants, shops and galleries, and a boasts a renowned golf course. It is a two-minute walk to Reduit Beach, rated the most beautiful beach on the island.

Caribbean food has as complicated a history as the people who invented it. Five hundred years ago, European, African and Asian influences fused with the native foods of the New World, including the everyday foods of today, such as potatoes, tomatoes and corn, and feisty, flavoursome Caribbean cuisine was born!

This exchange between the Old and New World has changed forever the way the people all over the planet eat. But nowhere in the world is this intricate mixing of cuisines more noticeable than in the West Indies – where else on earth would you find cowfoot stew, coconut run down and flamed banana on the menu?!

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