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Raising goat here is traditional. The meat is dried or sometimes smoked over a wood fire. The liver and lungs are used in "fressure" and served with vegetables and little dumplings called "dombrés." The tripe is also made into a highly-prized dish.
After Mass on Sunday, well-behaved children are given their treats: barley sugar candies made from white sugar and "pomme raquette" which gives them a nice red color. After first communion masses, guests are treated to "chaudeau," a kind of frothy lime-based eggnog.
But on this tiny speck of land in the Caribbean, the French influence is still omnipresent. If you take the road to Toiny, you'll discover authentic Breton women in traditional headdresses picking thyme in their garden to make cotriade, a traditional fish soup from Brittany. Here, more cosmopolitan aromas waft among the beefwood trees and coconut palms, reflecting a culinary nostalgia for France, while at the same time merging with some sunnier tropical influences.
Top photo and some recipes are signed by Francis Delage. Television personality, author, teacher, former owner of the Route des Boucaniers restaurant, and Master Chef Francis Delage has made the most of the business of putting food on the table. At his restaurants in Paris and West Indies, he has fed a glittering array of French luminaries, including Jacques Chirac, Paco Rabanne and Marie-José Perec, while simultaneously assembling and publishing "Les Délices de la Cuisine Créole" and "Délices de France," two 6-volume cooking encyclopedias.
Recipe page : Restaurant Le Gaïac, Hôtel le Toiny
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