When Captain James Cook entrusted thirty-three-year-old William Bligh (at the time a Commanding Lieutenant) with the HM Armed Vessel Bounty in 1787, breadfruit — not adventure — drove what became an infamous voyage. Bligh and his mutinous men sailed to Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia) to bring breadfruit trees back to Caribbean in hopes that the fruit would provide adequate food for the slaves working on sugar plantations there. (Bligh later undertook a second voyage as a captain […]

Categories: Agriculture, Cooking, Gardens, Haiti, Local foods, Recipes • Tags: Ahupua'a, Breadfruit, France, French Colonies, Fritters, Haiti, Hawaii, Limahuli Botanical Gardens, Tahiti, William Bligh