Well, damn! Learn something new every day, if you're paying attention.
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My parents are Caucasian American but I was born and grew up in Haiti, where Creole is spoken and the cooking is VERY spicy. The basic food is rice and black beans, with meat and vegetable red sauce, fried plantain bananas, with plenty of stuff added, depending on what is available, such as casava bread with hot pima peanut butter and smashed avacado spread on it.
I can cook it all. With and without tomatoes...yummm.