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Tobago Blue Food Festival in Bloody Bay
The Tobago Blue Food Festival is held annually in October in Bloody Bay, a farming village on Tobago's northern coast, celebrating dasheen, a purple-blue-fleshed root vegetable central to local cuisine, through cooking competitions, traditional blue food dishes, and cultural performance rooted in the community's agricultural heritage.
Bloody Bay sits on Tobago's rugged northern coast, a small farming village whose agricultural identity has long centered on dasheen, a starchy root vegetable, also known elsewhere as taro, whose flesh turns a distinctive purplish-blue when cooked, giving rise to the term blue food used throughout Tobago to describe dishes built around it.