the dominican food

the dominican eat mostly food that comes either from europe or from europpean controled lands, or african food, the things that grows since before the time the europpean came are mostly forgotten, and being a small island our animals were not so good to eat. we ate rice, beans, and lettuce with meat(mostly chiken, but sometime cows) almost everyday, its called the flag also we enjoy eating platanos, that is something like a banana but needs to be cooked before it can be digested by our digstive sistem. we also eat a lot of "viveres" that is vegetables that grows underground and are mostly of african origens:names, yautias,ect that also needs to be cook. we are a big producers of chickens eggs and we even export them. we dosent eat a lot of fish(oddly enough been an island) and also eat a lot of pasta our most disguinted and unice recipe its: habichuelas con dulce" meaning beans with sugar and milk its goes like this" 2/4 of red beans 1/4 of sugar 1/4 of milk cooked togheter, for more than an hour at 100 degrees celsius and serve with either raisins or cookies or both.