Grenada: Curry Goat with Coconut Saffron Rice
Grenada is a lush, tropical island nation in the Caribbean. Part of the famed West Indies island group, Grenada was historically nicknamed the ‘Island of Spice’ due its bountiful production of nutmeg and other valuable culinary spices. In fact, Grenadian culture is so strongly linked to nutmeg that a symbol of the spice appears on their flag of independence . But it wasn’t always that way. Nutmeg is an Indonesian spice that was unknown to the I ndigenous Amerindian people who lived, fished and farmed communally on Grenada for over 1000 years before European colonisers arrived in the 17th century with new spices and enslaved African People to forcibly establish a plantation economy. For the next hundred years or so France and England fought over who ‘owned’ the rights to Grenada’s plantations and wealth, and between them they transported many more Africa slaves to Grenada. When slavery was finally abolished in Grenada in 1838 the plantations faced such a critical labou