Introducing the Plantain

Food is very representative of a city’s culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you’ve got to eat the food.

— Emeril Lagasse.

Culturally Delicious is a blog that will combine culture with history, through restaurants in Atlanta. The first few blogs will cover plantains. The great and culturally diverse city of Atlanta has much to contribute to my blog. Many connections can be made from such diversity in one city. When you think about it, plantains are a part of a lot of cultures. North America, South America, the Caribbbean islands, and Asia. In Caribbean and African culture there are debates about the pronunciation of the fruit. Is it plantain or plantin?

In Spanish speaking countries tostones, platanos, and platanos maduros are worth debating the differences. They’re all dishes from the same fruit but their differences come from how they’re prepared.

Every culture cuts their plantains differently too. I have not tried thick chunky plantains and I doubt that they will taste better than slimmer, diagonally sliced plantains.

Atlanta is home to places like Mangos Caribbean Grill, Buenos Dias Cafe, Senegambia Restaurant, Waikikie Hawaiian BBQ , and much more that I will include in my crawl. Along with learning how each dish is made, I want to include the history of the dishes. Hopefully I can put some of the debates to rest and give y’all REAL ANSWERS lol. I hope you guys will enjoy my plantain crawl as much as I enjoyed making it. Eating and learning going hand and hand. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.