"Hauks, Chip, Grate, and Squeeze": Recipes of the Honduran Bay Islands

Abstract

"Hauks, Chip, Grate and Squeeze" is an ethnographic cookbook based on field research Laura Herlihy completed in the late 1990s in the Honduran Bay Islands. Herlihy worked as part of the Honduras Subcomponent of Bi-Lingual Inter-cultural Education project to describe and promote Bay Island English (BIE). Her research assignment was to collect speech events on a specific theme – Island cuisine – and highlight language use in the traditional context of cooking. What resulted was a cookbook of recipes in BIE, collected from women (and some men) in Roatan, Guanaja, and Utila. The book also includes maps; pictures of the Bay Islands and of those she interviewed; a section on fieldwork and ethnographic methods; an index organized by food groups, and a glossary that provides translations of BIE terms to standard English.