![]() It was one of the plants transported on William Bligh’ (.) 4 The choice of breadfruit is not incidental.All in all, Pig Tails stands out as a medley book, an “espèce d’ouvrage” to borrow from Francis Ponge’s meditation on the poetic potential of the fig fruit (Ponge, 54), which unravels in 17 chapters, the titles of which, except for the last one, all refer to food 3. It is also a life story, a “memoir”, a term that Clarke prefers to the term “autobiography”, arguing that the memoir is less constricting in terms of format, texture and time frame (Clarke/Birbalsingh, 96). ![]() It is entitled “Froze (.)ģ Pig Tails’ n Breadfruit – Rituals of Slave Food: A Barbadian Memoir published in 1999, is meant to be many things at once, as its ample title suggests−a cookbook tracing the development of Barbadian cuisine, an essay touching on anthropology, history and commerce, as well as a scrapbook collection of various materials (cooking instructions, economic data, slave words and memories, and pieces of community gossip). ![]() ![]() 3 The last chapter is slightly nostalgic and devoted to the narrator’s mother. ![]()
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