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Caribbean
Cooking classes for the family at Luxury Bahia
Principe Fantasia in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
The Best Cultural
Experience: Local Food
Ed Wetschler
Although most travel is experiential travel
(why would anyone visit Rome or the
Grand Canyon and not look around?), the
Caribbean used to be the exception. Many
people went to resorts where the focus was
on sun, sea, and sand, not the destination.
Today, though, visitors are also interested in
the local culture, especially its food. So here's
a look at how even mainstream resorts and
tour operators are now putting the spotlight
on island cuisine.
Room rates below are for one couple
staying a week in August, including taxes
and surcharges. Commissions may not
include taxes and services.
Antigua
Hermitage Bay can arrange for guests to
gather cockles the island way and then learn
how to cook them. Deon, a local from a
rural family, takes participants to a mangrove
pond where they wade into thigh-high water,
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wiggle their toes in the mud until they feel
the cockles, and pick them up with their
feet. Later, the chef shows the foragers how
to cook these shellfish, and guests can use
that recipe back home with other mollusks.
Rooms from $7,718. hermitagebay.com
The Bahamas
In late 2017 Atlantis Paradise Island
debuted new food options that are more
authentically Bahamian. Three are outposts
of local favorites: Mckenzie's Conch Shack
(conch, prepared various ways, is the
national dish); Frankie Gone Bananas,
which serves classics such as coconut-andkalik soup, fresh lobster tail, and Bahama
Mamas; and Pirate Republic Brewery
Taproom, arguably the best microbrewery in
the region. Rates from $2,130.
atlantisbahamas.com
In downtown Nassau, Tru Bahamian
Food Tours' Bites of Nassau Food Tasting
and Cultural Walking Tour includes meetings
with chefs; tastes of conch fritters, island
macaroni and cheese, and rum cake; and a
"Bites of Nassau Recipe Collection." Price:
$74.18 per adult. Tru's Private Authentic
Cooking Class and Lunch Experience teaches
participants how to make a 3-course
Bahamian meal. Rates vary with size of the
group. trubahamianfoodtours.com
Dominican Republic
One of the most popular activities in
Luxury Bahia Principe Fantasia's Bahia
Scouts program is cooking and fruit-carving
classes for children as young as 4 to 6.
Moreover, all of Bahia Principe's Punta Cana
properties offer guests a half-day excursion to
two working plantations. One grows sugar,
tobacco, vanilla, and pineapples; at the
other, participants learn how cacao is grown
and converted into chocolate. Fantasia
rooms start at $2,060. bahia-principe.com ➤
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http://www.hermitagebay.com
http://www.trubahamianfoodtours.com
http://www.atlantisbahamas.com
http://www.bahia-principe.com
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