Mark Kurlansky has reported on the Caribbean for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.

• * Introduction * The Curse * Old Gods and Satellite Dishes * Color-Coded Nations * Sacrifice and the Revolution * Why Damballah Left * Bajan Burgers * Prophets and Profits * The Goats, the Sheep, and the Ugly Time * Two Ways of Looking at It * A Hint of Vanilla * Too Strong a Word * The Good Election * Death by Pepper Sauce * The Tenth Man * The Diaspora * Don Pedro in Levittown * The Cookie Theory of Underdevelopment * In Search of France * History Returns * The Continent (Table) * Suggested Reading

Mark Kurlansky has reported on the Caribbean for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.

• * Introduction * The Curse * Old Gods and Satellite Dishes * Color-Coded Nations * Sacrifice and the Revolution * Why Damballah Left * Bajan Burgers * Prophets and Profits * The Goats, the Sheep, and the Ugly Time * Two Ways of Looking at It * A Hint of Vanilla * Too Strong a Word * The Good Election * Death by Pepper Sauce * The Tenth Man * The Diaspora * Don Pedro in Levittown * The Cookie Theory of Underdevelopment * In Search of France * History Returns * The Continent (Table) * Suggested Reading

Mark Kurlansky has reported on the Caribbean for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.

• * Introduction * The Curse * Old Gods and Satellite Dishes * Color-Coded Nations * Sacrifice and the Revolution * Why Damballah Left * Bajan Burgers * Prophets and Profits * The Goats, the Sheep, and the Ugly Time * Two Ways of Looking at It * A Hint of Vanilla * Too Strong a Word * The Good Election * Death by Pepper Sauce * The Tenth Man * The Diaspora * Don Pedro in Levittown * The Cookie Theory of Underdevelopment * In Search of France * History Returns * The Continent (Table) * Suggested Reading