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Caribbean: Plantains & film

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico (U.S.), Saint Lucia, St. Barthélémy, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St.Kitts & Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Isl.

The Caribbean Beat Blog links [1] to a NY Times article about an ingenious new plantain peeler, and reports [2] that the 1957 film “Island in the Sun”, which was filmed in the Caribbean and stars Jamaica-born Harry Belafonte, is now available on DVD.