Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Ascension Islander recipes, part of Africa. This page provides links to all the Ascension Islander recipes presented on this site, with 2 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Indian recipes added to this site.

Ascension Island is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha a remote British overseas territory and is the most populous island.

Being sparsely populated and with, until recently, no real tourist industry Ascension Island has not really had an opportunity to develop a native cuisine. May of the local dishes are derived from the main island, Saint Helena. However, a few dishes such as Yorkshire Pudding with Sausages, Onions and Carrots and Sweet Chilli and Pepper Salsa have been developed on the RAF base and are presented in the RAF cookbook as Ascension Island recipes.

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about 960 miles (1,540 km) from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from the coast of South America. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha,[4] of which the main island, Saint Helena, is around 800 miles (1,300 km) to the southeast. The territory also includes the sparsely populated Tristan da Cunha archipelago, 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to the south, about halfway to the Antarctic Circle.

Ascension Island was possibly discovered by the Portuguese seafarer João da Nova in 1501, before being named Ascension by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1503 on Ascension Day.[5] Ascension Island was garrisoned by the British Admiralty from 22 October 1815 to 1922 and was an important refuelling stop for ships and commercial airliners in the days of international air travel by flying boats. During World War II, it was an important naval and air station, especially providing antisubmarine warfare bases in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The island is the location of RAF Ascension Island, which is a Royal Air Force station, a European Space Agency rocket tracking station, a British-American signals intelligence facility and the BBC World Service Atlantic Relay Station. The island was used extensively as a staging point by the British military during the Falklands War. Ascension Island hosts one of four ground antennas that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational system (the others are on Kwajalein Island, Diego Garcia, and Cape Canaveral). NASA operates a Meter Class Autonomous Telescope (MCAT) on Ascension Island for tracking orbital debris, which is potentially hazardous to operating spacecraft and astronauts, at a facility called the John Africano NASA/AFRL Orbital Debris Observatory.

Etymology: Ascension Island was named 'Ascension' by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1503 on Ascension Day.

Ascension Islander Cuisine:

Being sparsely populated and with, until recently, no real tourist industry Ascension Island has not really had an opportunity to develop a native cuisine. May of the local dishes are derived from the main island, Saint Helena. However, a few dishes such as Yorkshire Pudding with Sausages, Onions and Carrots and Sweet Chilli and Pepper Salsa have been developed on the RAF base and are presented in the RAF cookbook as Ascension Island recipes.