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Olivere Whitton interview for the Lakefront Legacy Festival Folklife Project
Subject
Restaurateurs
Fieldwork
Cookery, Jamaican
Jamaican Americans
Cooking and dining
Cooks
Occupational groups
Emigration and immigration
Interviews
Life histories
Oral histories
Sound recordings
Restaurants
Community enterprise
Cookery, Haitian
Drink
Menus
Dinners and dining
Merchants
Description
One audio cassette. Held at Whitton's Islander Restaurant, he discusses Jamaica; immigrating to the US; the restaurant business; Jamaican foods and supplies (and how hard they are to get in Florida); the menu; Haitian cooking; Jamaican drinks; Latin American foods; buying foods from farmers; and other foods prepared there. In 1992, the Palm Beach Community College contracted the Florida Folklife Program to conduct ten days of fieldwork in March 1992 around Lake Okeechobee for a Lakefront Legacy Festival later that year (16 May 1992). Headed up by FFP folklorist Debbie Fant, and assisted by Robert Stone and Robert Shanafelt, the fieldwork involved 26 informants, slides, print images and recorded interviews. In the end, the FFP recommended seven people for festival participation.
Olivere Whitton interview for the Lakefront Legacy Festival Folklife Project. 1992-03-06. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/236285>, accessed 1 December 2024.
MLA
Olivere Whitton interview for the Lakefront Legacy Festival Folklife Project. 1992-03-06. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/236285>