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Barbadian cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavors, spices and influences from the
Spanish, British, Africans, Indian and Chinese who have inhabited the island. It is also influenced by the crops introduced into the island from tropical Southeast Asia. Jamaican cuisine includes various dishes from the different cultures brought to the island with the arrival of people from elsewhere. Other dishes are novel or a fusion of techniques and traditions. In addition to ingredients that are native to Jamaica, many foods have been introduced and are now grown locally. A wide variety of seafood, tropical fruits
and meats are available.
Some Jamaican cuisine dishes are variations on the cuisines and cooking styles brought to the island from elsewhere. These are often modified to incorporate local produce. Others are novel and have developed locally. Popular Jamaican dishes include
Jamaican patties
and various pastries and breads are also popular as well as fruit beverages and Jamaican rum.
Jamaican cuisine has spread with emigrations, especially during the 20th century, from the island to other nations as Jamaicans have sought economic opportunities in other areas.
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History
Development of the cuisine
The
slaves after emancipation brought their own culinary talents (especially curry, which Jamaican chefs sometimes use to season goat
meat for special occasions).
American, Chinese and British cuisines are not new to the island. Through many years of British colonialism
the cuisine developed many habits of cooking particular to a trading colony.
Jamaican Cuisine and the Rastafarians
The Jamaican cuisine is quite diverse and mention must be made of the Rastafarian influence. Rastafarians have a vegetarian approach to preparing food, cooking, and eating, and have introduced a host of unique vegetarian dishes to the Jamaican cuisine. They do not eat pork, and the strict ones do not eat meat, including poultry and fish. There are even some who believe in cooking with little or no salt and cooking in an 'Ital' way.
Popular ingredients
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- Acerola(locally known as "cherry")
- Ackee
- Allspice (locally known as "pimento")
- Anatto
- Avocado (locally known as "pear")
- banana
- Black pepper
- Boniato(locally known as "sweet potato")
- Breadfruit
- Browning Sauce
- Calabaza (locally known as "pumpkin")
- Callaloo
- Yuca (locally known as "Cassava")
- Chayote (locally known as "chocho")
- Chondrus crispus
- Coconut milk
- Coconut
- Cowfeet
- Dried and salted cod (locally known as "salt fish")
- Escallion
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Green Banana
- Guava
- Gungo pea
- Jackfruit
- Jerk spice
- Ketchup
- Kidney bean
- Lima bean
- Malay apple(locally known as "apple" or "Otaheite apple")
- Onion
- Oxtail
- Passion fruit
- Pig tail and ears
- Pigeon peas(locally known as "gungo peas")
- Pineapple
- Plantain
- Roselle (plant) (locally known as "sorrel")
- Salt beef
- Scotch bonnet (pepper)
- Soursop
- Sugar cane
- Tahitian apple(locally known as "June plum")
- Tamarind
- Taro (locally known as "dasheen" or "coco")
- Thyme
- Vinegar
- Yam (vegetable)
Popular dishes
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A Jamaican breakfast includes
fried dumplings.[4]
Main courses
- Ackee and saltfish
- Brown Stew Chicken
- Corned Beefand cabbage
- Curry goat/mutton
- Escoveitch fish (similar to Spanish escabeche)
- saltfish)
- Jerk-spicedchicken/pork
- Oxtail with broad beans
- Jamaican spiced bun
- Steamed fish
Soups
- Fish tea
- Mannish Water (Head and "man meat" of Goat soup) - said to be an aphrodisiac.
- Run down - spicy mackerel and coconut stew
Side dishes
- Cabbage
- Callaloo
- Cowfoot
- Festival - Jamaican-style sweet fried maize dumpling
- Okra (also Okra and saltfish stew)
- Pepperpot Soup
- Pigfoot
- Pilau - a dish containing rice, chicken, pork, shellfish, and vegetables, similar to Paella while the name is derived from the Indian pulav
- Red Peas Soup
- stewed with beans and coconut milk. Otherwise known as "Jamaican Coat of Arms".
- Solomon gundy
- Spinners - dumplings shaped by "spinning" them in the hands.[5]
- Stewed Peas
Breads and pastries
- Bammy
- Bulla cakes
- Coco bread
- Hard dough bread
- Ice Cream
Beverages
- Bush tea
- Carrot juice with spices such as nutmeg and vanilla
- Cucumber juice
- Ginger beer
- Guinness punch with spices such as nutmeg and vanilla
- Sorrel drink
- Irish Moss (also called sea moss) a milkshake-like beverage.[6][citation needed] It is made from Gracilaria spp, rather than Chondrus crispus.[citation needed]
- Limeade
- Mango juice
- Otaheiti Apple Juice
- Peanut punch
- Sour Sopjuice
- Tamarin drink
- Sky Juice
- Suck-Suck
- Tamarind Fizz
- Tingsoda
- Pineapple Soda
Desserts and sweets
grapenut and rum and raisin
.
Other popular desserts include
plantain tart
.
blue drawers
is a dish made by combining a starch (usually cornmeal or cassava) with coconut milk, then wrapped and tied in banana leaf before boiling.
Asham is parched corn that is ground and combined with brown sugar.
Bustamante Backbone, named after the first Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante
, is a candy.
Jamaican food abroad
Jamaican cuisine is available throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and other places with a sizeable Jamaican population. In the United States, a large number of restaurants are located throughout New York's boroughs, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and other metropolitan areas. In Canada, Jamaican restaurants can be found in the Toronto metropolitan area, as well as Vancouver, Montreal, and Ottawa. Jamaican dishes are also featured on the menus of Bahama Breeze, a US-based restaurant chain owned by Darden Restaurants.
Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill
is a chain of about 120 franchised restaurants found throughout the U.S. These restaurants sell Jamaican patties, buns, breads, and dinner and lunch dishes. They also supply food to several institutions in New York.
See also
References
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- ^ Deborah S. Hartz Authentic Jamaican breakfast Aug 1, 1991 Ocala Star-Banner page 44
- ^ Dictionary of Jamaican English By Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page page 420
- ^ "Newsday - The Long Island and New York City News Source". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. 1987-02-04. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
External links
Media related to Cuisine of Jamaica at Wikimedia Commons
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