The Gastronomic & Drumming Experience is a five-hour morning of Garifuna food and rhythm on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island in Hopkins, Belize: a full Garifuna breakfast, hudut you cook yourself, and drumming with our family.
It starts with breakfast, which tells you what kind of day it is. Fresh fish, eggs, sautéed vegetables, banana fritters, beans and fry jacks, with herbal tea from the garden picked that morning. You eat before you do anything else, the way you would in any Garifuna home.
Then the day opens out: music, dance and storytelling, and drumming taught by people who grew up with it.
Then you cook hudut the traditional way — you do the work — and we sit down to eat it together.
Where the Garifuna Cultural & Culinary Adventure is our culture-and-history day, this is the food-and-rhythm one. It opens at the table and closes on the drums.
What you'll do
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A full traditional Garifuna breakfast — fry jacks, fritters, fresh fish
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Herbal tea picked from the garden that morning
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Drumming and traditional dance taught by local experts
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Cook hudut using time-honoured technique
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Small groups — maximum seven