Food vendors carving a niche for indigenous cuisine on coastal market

Natasha John and her baked cassava bread

Close to the Amerindian Hostel on Princes Street, a group of enterprising representatives Guyana’s indigenous community can be found been doing a brisk trade in Amerindian cuisine, mimicking the urban tradition of roadside trading in conventional creole foods.

Talk of Amerindian food conjures up images of those dishes and drinks with which coastlanders are most familiar: Cassava Bread, Pepperpot, Farine, Piwari, Parakari and Fly. But as Stabroek Business found out last week, there’s more. Not least among the dishes on offer is the tasty and popular Tuma Pot; similar to Pepperpot except that the