Flavors of Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

The cuisine

Traditional food of Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

The cooking of the Falkland Islands is home-style with a British base. Meat comes from sheep and cattle farms: mutton even appears at breakfast, and the main meal is often slow-cooked meat with vegetables from the garden. From the sea come squid, trout, mullet and toothfish, a deep-water fish.

One custom punctuates the day: the smoko, the mid-morning or afternoon break with tea or coffee and plates of homemade cakes, biscuits and scones. It’s at smoko that the specialty most linked to the islands appears — diddle-dee jam, a preserve made from a small red berry that grows on the moors.

Outside Stanley, in the countryside residents call the camp, food is home-cooked, often using what the farm produces. The diddle-dee jam page tells the story of the plant, the harvest and the way it’s served.