🎙️ Audio capsule EN (3 min) – The audio capsule will be published in Sprint 4c. Meanwhile, you can read the full transcript below.

Station 2 – Outdoor kitchen

You are in the kitchen, separated from the main living quarters. This is no coincidence.

Under the equatorial climate, the heat of the hearth would make the house unlivable. The wood fire also posed an obvious fire hazard, best kept at a distance. And the smells, smoke and noise of cooking remained outside the living spaces.

Here, Guianese Creole dishes were prepared: awara stew, rice and peas, smoked bushmeat.

The work was almost always done by women, most often of African or mixed origin, a direct legacy of post-abolition social organization.