The food of a neighborhood is very important in facilitating transnationalism economically and culturally. The types of food sold is specific to Flatbush and other West Indian transmigrant communities. There are cultural cuisines such as Jamaican restaurants, the many West Indian bakeries (such as Golden Krust), and roti shops. One of the Caribbean restaurants we visited served homemade curry and oxtail as dishes. They mostly had clientele from the neighborhood. This shows that they were servicing the transmigrants living in the community. In a deli we went into they were selling cultural food of the caribbean such as Goya beans, rice from Haiti, bacalao, curry powder, senna pods, mauby bark, aniseed, cerasse, Roopalee brand, basmati rice, corn meal, and casava. This store was directed toward the transnationals from the West Indies. Furthermore, the supermarkets in the neighborhood carried West Indian fruits and vegtables in addition to the fruits and vegetables usually found in a supermarket in New York. These included sweet batata, dry coconut, yuca, chayote, gandules, and Costa Rica yams.
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