More than five dozen food stalls ringed the vast Canarsie Cricket Grounds, almost all of them devoted to the cuisine of a single small island. Many menus overlapped, but one offered a Bajan specialty that I'd never seen in Brooklyn: sea egg rice (first photo below), featuring the fried roe of sea urchins. (Compare the fish eggs of Barbados's island neighbor St. Lucia.) Another vendor distinguished itself with a display case of sticky, chewy coconut drops (second photo). I bought two, one on arrival, another on departure.
For more photos, see my album.
Barbados Festival Day
Monroe Cohen Park (a.k.a. the Canarsie Cricket Grounds), entrance on Seaview Ave. at East 108th St., Canarsie, Brooklyn
www.Facebook.com/events/110216293121997
(The 2018 festival was held on July 14)
