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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Introduction to Jamaican Food

Jamaica is a culturally diverse country whose population most notably includes Africans, African-Europeans, and Chinese. The various races have reached Jamaica either through expeditions to conquer the land or for trading purposes that have left countless influences on Jamaican culture, particularly in Jamaican cuisine. Jamaican food may not be as popular as Chinese, Japanese, or Chinese food, but it is strongly making its mark in the food industry.

Jamaican Foods

Many of Jamaica’s fruits, including pineapple, mango, banana and avocado were brought to the region by slave traders and plantation owners experimenting with crops. What were once sugar cane fields are now being used to grow fruits and ackee for export and domestic use.

Few other cuisines mix such a range of spices and tastes - sweet, hot and savory - as Jamaican cooking. Jamaican food wouldn’t be the same without the spices, seasonings and colors from: Allspice, the pimento berry.

Jamaican National Dish Ackee and Codfish

The fleshly, yellow part of a seed pod from the ackee fruit is cooked with cod fish.This is Jamaica's national dish . When it is cooked ackee looks like scrambled egg.

Many people of the other Caribbean islands do not eat ackee and think Jamaican are unique and strong in spirit because they do There is one particular Caribbean island that the people would not eat this fruit, as it is alleged that they use it for witchcraft,and fear Jamaicans because they eat the ackee.This dish is usually served with roasted breadfruit, boiled bananas or fried dumplings in Jamaica

Jamiacan jerk

Jamaican Jerk is a special jerk type cooking offered from Jamaica to the rest of the world. Jerk cooking is almost a 250 years old style of authentic Jamaican cooking. It was brought in slaves to Jamaica. Jamaican Jerk sauce is special for the fresh spices from Jamaica, which are world famous for its natural oil and aromatic contents and are low on cholesterol content compared to other spices. The combination of spices increases the appetite for Jerk food and the traditional way of serving calls for Jamaican festivals.

CONCLUSION

Do you like drinking coffee? Don’t be ashamed if you are a big coffee drinker. Try Jamaican blue mountain coffee. No matter how you make your coffee or how you take it, you will certainly love the taste of it. Among many of the spices grown in Jamaica are nutmeg, ginger, thyme, scotch bonnet peppers, which are integral distinct flavors of Jamaican cooking. The pungent thyme grows rampantly on the island and is found in the majority of Jamaican foods.