There’s a pervasive familiarity with the cassava by-product, bammy, in Jamaica. But did you know there were fruit variations running the gamut from mango, banana, apple and raisin, to chocolate-covered cassava cakes that are quite popular in St Lucia?

Plas Kassav, located in the hills of Canaries, is home to a manufacturing plant and tourist stop, check-listed as part of our Campari-sponsored island tour last Saturday.

With islanders from Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St Maarten, St Vincent, and a number of other countries comprising the mixed group of J Wray & Nephew executives, Campari regional distributor agents, and Caribbean media aboard the tour buses, there was en masse eagerness to sample the cassava cakes.

Thursday Life ordered the cassava pone, plain salt fish and apple and raisin cassava varieties, finding the latter, similar in taste to a Jamaican spice bun, save for the added coconut ingredient.

— Omar Tomlinson