MARIE SHARP’S PEPPER SAUCE
Wherever you go in Belize you will never be too far away from a bottle of Marie Sharp’s Habanero sauce. A bottle of this fine condiment was on every table in every restaurant, bar or cafe when we visited the country a few years ago – and rightly so as this is one of the world’s great hot pepper sauces!
The sauces have been made in Belize since 1981 and whilst there are several different flavours, the original Habanero is our preferred choice.
An attractive website for the sauces can be found here
The food in Belize is good and fresh being a mixture of different cultures – from tamales to rice and beans. The superb national beer Belikin goes extremely well with the food. Add a dash of Marie Sharp’s sauce of course!
We think that the musical culture of the country is best represented by the Garifuna, a people who are a mixture of Afro Caribbean and indigenous peoples such as the Arawaks. The late Andy Palacio was perhaps the best known Garifuna musician and we were lucky enough to see him and his band live.
A nice documentary on Garifuna music, food and culture from Honduras is here:-
‘Yo soy Garífuna’
The Arawaks along with the Taino were the original inhabitants of Jamaica as Joseph Hill and colleagues of the roots reggae vocal group Culture noted in their Joe Gibbs produced song ‘Pirate Days’.
Well before the Europeans invaded Jamaica and began dragging slaves from Africa to work the plantations there ‘the Arawaks was here first’ as the song notes.
We saw Culture live in 1978 and remember them with fond memories.
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