Jamaica Kincaid, the author, grew up in the West Indies, in Antigua, and that's where this story takes place. How did the author most likely choose the foods she wrote about in the passage above?

She had heard that people in Antigua eat things like that.

She made them up because they sounded good in the story.

She probably read about them in a cookbook.

She probably ate those foods when she was growing up.

Question

Jamaica Kincaid, the author, grew up in the West Indies, in Antigua, and that's where this story takes place. How did the author most likely choose the foods she wrote about in the passage above?

She had heard that people in Antigua eat things like that.

She made them up because they sounded good in the story.

She probably read about them in a cookbook.

She probably ate those foods when she was growing up.

anonymous · Answer

When we got home, my mother started to prepare our lunch (pumpkin soup with droppers, banana fritters with salt fish stewed in antroba and tomatoes, fungi with salt fish. . . or pepper pot, all depending on what my mother had found at the market that day). As my mother went about from pot to pot, stirring one, adding something to the other, I was ever in her wake. As she dipped into a pot of boiling something or other to taste for correct seasoning, she would give me a taste of it also, asking me what I thought. Not that she really wanted to know what I thought. . . just to include me in everything.
from Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid