![]() My good friend and very talented photographer Oliver Chanarin and I went to India to shoot with these incredible Hasselblad cameras, and shot on rolls of film the entire trip, which was a joy. For these special festivals, families prepare traditional dishes such as burfi (sweet nutty fudge), petha (sweet winter melon candy), spiced vegetable fritters, lamb biryani, and mutton kebabs to enjoy with friends and celebrate. “The Indian community here keeps up the traditions of Diwali and Eid and observes the holy days,” says chef Shalil D’Silva, who moved to the island from Panaji, Goa, five years ago and works as an executive sous chef at a wellness resort, StolenTime by Rendezvous in Castries. ![]() Today, Saint Lucia’s Indian population has mostly assimilated into Saint Lucian culture, but the Indian expat community continues to celebrate traditional Indian holidays. “When I returned to India, I went to one of the markets in Mumbai and someone was selling the same banana flowers in the market.” “My mother made a dish using banana flowers that I had never seen anyone else in Saint Lucia make,” he explains. ![]() Compton is a third-generation Saint Lucian with Indian heritage via Mumbai, and recalls recipes that his mom made that he eventually traced back to his ancestral country. Indian food, like the giant country itself, is vast and varied each state has its own culinary traditions, many of which survived the passage from India to the Caribbean.
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