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A Journey Through Barbados, One Fish Cake at a Time

It’s a secret recipe. Sure, I can venture a guess. There’s some form of batter and salted cod. Deep fried until they’ve reached that perfect nexus of crispy and chewy, golden brown. But there’s a mystery, an alchemy going on here that only the most expert fish-cake-friers know. For the chef here, they’re the best in Barbados. “People come back and buy it,” the chef tells me. “They even buy the batter from us and freeze it.” And with a food shack called De Fishcake Boss, it’s hard to argue. She hands me a piping hot brown paper bag with half a dozen of them. The food line at the...