For the most part, I ate at...
For the most part, I ate at the guesthouses where I stayed--both Roxy's and the Carib Territory Guesthouse had good Creole homecooking. One of my best meals was at a small place across from the Ross University School of Medicine where I had some delicious fish, rice, provisions (officially called ground provisions--they are root vegetables) and beans for about $4US.A lot of Dominican cuisine was created with fruits, vegetables and herbs that grow rampant throughout the island. In the Carib Territory, the Caribs have farms on steeply sloping hills and it's hard to believe that the farmers wouldn't tumble down the side. Vegetation is lush on the island and on any given walk, you'll find herbs and flowers growing wildly. Obviously, the photo to the right is not of an edible plant. Don't leave Dominica without having a dasheen croquette (dasheen is a root vegetable--taro), some callaloo...
