Street Vendor · Peanut Brittle

Tablèt Pistach (Peanut Brittle)

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Vendors known as machann tablèt traditionally balance a full tray of the candy on their heads and cut off pieces to order with a small knife right on the street.

Roasted peanuts are cooked down in raw cane syrup until the mixture hardens into a chewy, crunchy bar, then sold sliced from wide trays by roadside vendors around Cap-Haïtien's markets.

Why it's made this way: The plains around Cap-Haïtien have long grown both peanuts and sugar cane, and the city's vendor culture turned the pairing into one of the north's best-known confections.

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