St. Lucia:
Yesterday, February 22, was St. Lucia's Independence Day. This is a Caribbean country where English is the official language, but French and Creole are widely spoken.
Poetry:
St. Lucia is primarily supported by the tourist industry, but that does not mean this is the only thing to this beautiful island. This Island is also home to Derek Walcott, a painter, play write, and poet. Though this poet is still alive, most of his poetry was written prior to Saint Lucia's Independence in 1979, so much of his poetry is about the turmoil this country faced as a place that had at times been a French colony and at times been under British Rule (Teicher).
Food:
I celebrated with them by eating food typical to the Caribbean. I had fried plantains, which I spiced with paprika and salt. I also had black bean soup and Caribbean rice. I cheated with the rice, making it from a package. The rice had coconut shavings, pineapple, and bell peppers in it.
This is how I made my black bean soup:
Ingredients:
1/4 cup dry black beans
1 tbs. cooking oil
1/2 onion
1 chicken bullion cube
a pinch of celery salt
2 cups water + some for soaking the beans
Directions:
1) Soak the black beans over night.
2) Chop the onions. In a pan heat up the oil in a pan.
3) Sauté the onion in the pan until the onion is translucent,
4) Place all ingredients in a small crockpot and cook on high for 8 hours.
Work Cited:
"St. Lucia". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia. Retrieved: February 22, 2014
Teicher, Craig Morgan. " 60 Years of Poems Mix Anger, Ambivalence and Authority." Published: 24 January 2014. Web Page: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/24/264518550/sixty-years-of-poems-mix-anger-ambivalence-and-authority . Retrieved: February 22, 2014.
Yesterday, February 22, was St. Lucia's Independence Day. This is a Caribbean country where English is the official language, but French and Creole are widely spoken.
Poetry:
St. Lucia is primarily supported by the tourist industry, but that does not mean this is the only thing to this beautiful island. This Island is also home to Derek Walcott, a painter, play write, and poet. Though this poet is still alive, most of his poetry was written prior to Saint Lucia's Independence in 1979, so much of his poetry is about the turmoil this country faced as a place that had at times been a French colony and at times been under British Rule (Teicher).
Food:
I celebrated with them by eating food typical to the Caribbean. I had fried plantains, which I spiced with paprika and salt. I also had black bean soup and Caribbean rice. I cheated with the rice, making it from a package. The rice had coconut shavings, pineapple, and bell peppers in it.
This is how I made my black bean soup:
Ingredients:1/4 cup dry black beans
1 tbs. cooking oil
1/2 onion
1 chicken bullion cube
a pinch of celery salt
2 cups water + some for soaking the beans
Directions:
1) Soak the black beans over night.
2) Chop the onions. In a pan heat up the oil in a pan.
3) Sauté the onion in the pan until the onion is translucent,
4) Place all ingredients in a small crockpot and cook on high for 8 hours.
Work Cited:
"St. Lucia". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia. Retrieved: February 22, 2014
Teicher, Craig Morgan. " 60 Years of Poems Mix Anger, Ambivalence and Authority." Published: 24 January 2014. Web Page: http://www.npr.org/2014/01/24/264518550/sixty-years-of-poems-mix-anger-ambivalence-and-authority . Retrieved: February 22, 2014.
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