The Wharf

  A paleo diet relies heavily on lean meats, fish, natural products, vegetables, nuts, and seeds — food that sustained hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic era for two-and-a-half million years before the advent of farming about 10,000 years ago. Also known as the Stone Age diet, the mountain man diet, or the caveman diet, the point of a paleo diet is to go back to the types of food that early humans ate before farming and before the modern diet emerged. Our genetics, the theory goes, are not suited to a diet that includes large amounts of dairy, grains, and legumes. Restaurants in West Bay, Grand Cayman, are famed for their fresh seafood, a paleo staple. The Wharf’s menu, while famed for its wide range of sinful desserts and rich entrees, also has plenty to offer the budding caveman, such as the perennial local seafood favorite, the conch stew. Conch meat is firm and white and is prepared in a variety of paleo-friendly ways, including stewed conch, conch salad, and steamed conch. Se...