Joe Brown, the original bass player of the Caribbean Tradewinds band, would not eat breadfruit because it was “slave food.” Joe came out of the steelband movement in Trinidad and had been the leader of a Laventille steelband; he could be a very principled guy on certain issues, and he was right about breadfruit.
Although now a part of Caribbean menus, particularly in the northern islands, breadfruit is not native to us. It was brought here in the late 18th century by the British to provide cheap and readily available
