Callaloo
What is it: A popular dish made widely throughout the Caribbean that features the main dark and leafy vegetable known as callaloo in Jamaica {or water spinach in other nations}. The preparation of this dish in Jamaica includes steaming the callaloo leaves and then cooking with saltfish or mackerel, salt, onions, and scallions. What […]
Brown Stewed Chicken
What is it: Brown stewed chicken also referred to as stew chicken, is typically eaten for dinner throughout the English speaking Caribbean islands. This dish is popular in Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Belize, Dominica and in Caribbean communities throughout the the world. This is done by frying the chicken […]
Breadfruit
What is it: It is a large round starchy fruit of a tropical tree, which is used as a vegetable and sometimes to make as a substitute for flour. The large evergreen tree which bears breadfruit, which is widely cultivated on the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean. Breadfruit is also called “breshay” by […]
Bammy
What is it: A flat round bread made of cassava flour that is said to be one of the oldest prepared food in Jamaica. It is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread decended from simple flatbread eaten by the Arawaks, Jamaica’s original inhabitants. What to eat with: Bammy and fried fish is a popular combination: […]
Tripe and Beans
What is it: Tripe and beans is one of those dishes that gives you the feeling that you have made something special and no one can question it. You see, this is one meal some people will politely say “no thank you” to because not everyone who tries to to make this Jamaican delicacy often […]
