The Syrian/Lebanese contribution

The last group of immigrants to venture the shores of Trinidad and Tobago originated from the region of Greater Syria and comprises of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon. Many of the Lebanon hailed from villages of Bichandoun and Amyoun, while the Syrians came from villages, they then emigrated to the Caribbean to escape religious persecution and economic hardship.

We have a melting pot of Arabic foods. We have even adopted some of their food preparation methods such as; grilling, roasting and baking. Even some of our popular seasonings that we use in our daily food such as; garlic, lemon, mint and olive oil is Syrian influenced because they use a lot of seasoning in their food .

 Popular Arabic foods found in many Arabic restaurants include includes;
Arabic rice -mined beef or lamb cooked in chicken stock, stir fried with rice, flavored with onions, salt and pepper and cinnamon.
Arabic bread - (pita) is a flat round bread easily split to make a sandwich.
 Sunsun bread is a thin crisped roasted bread with sesame seeds.

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