Barbados

Ask what Barbados eats and the answer starts with this: bajan cooking pairs flying fish and cou-cou with mustardy pepper sauce and the world’s oldest rum heritage. Look for Cou-cou and flying fish (national dish: cornmeal-okra mash with steamed flying fish), Pudding and souse (pickled pork with steamed sweet-potato pudding, Saturday ritual) and Macaroni pie (baked macaroni-cheddar casserole, Bajan comfort food). The national dish: cornmeal and okra cou-cou from West African fufu, with the flying fish that gave Barbados its nickname. This atlas has 25 Barbados dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.