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Coco bread, made to sandwich the Jamaican patty. Cornbread bun-like pastry. Cow foot, stewed. Curry goat. Curry chicken. Dumpling, served boiled, fried, and/or baked. Escoveitch fish. Green bananas, eaten boiled, or sliced and fried to make banana chips. Jamaican festival, similar to a hushpuppy.
Popular Jamaican dishes include curry goat, fried dumplings, ackee and saltfish . Jamaican patties along with various pastries, breads and beverages are also popular. Jamaican cuisine has spread with emigrants, especially during the 20th century, from the island to other nations as Jamaicans have sought economic opportunities in other countries.
The ackee fruit ( Blighia sapida) is the national fruit of Jamaica. [1] It was brought to the Caribbean from Ghana before 1725 as 'Ackee' or 'Aki', another name for the Akan people, Akyem. The fruit's scientific name honours Captain William Bligh who took the fruit from Jamaica to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England in 1793 and introduced ...
Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.. The art of jerking (or cooking with jerk spice) originated with indigenous peoples in Jamaica from the Arawak and Taíno tribes, and was carried forward by the descendants of 17th century Jamaican Maroons who intermingled with them.
Fish that spend the majority of their lives in Jamaica's fresh waters include many species of: Livebearers; Killifish; Gobies; Perch; Piranha; Introduced Intentional. The Malagasy mountain mullet, American Eel and Tilapia have been introduced from Africa for aquaculture and are very common. Accidental. Lion fish; Fresh water fish Parrot fish
Saint Catherine ( Jamaican Creole: Sent Cyatrine) is a parish in the south east of Jamaica. It is located in the county of Middlesex, and is one of the island's largest and most economically valued parishes because of its many resources. It includes the first capital of Jamaica, Spanish Town, originally known as San Jago de la Vega or Santiago ...
Kingston Harbour. / 17.95; -76.80. Kingston Harbour in Jamaica is the seventh-largest natural harbour in the world. [1] It is an almost landlocked area of water approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) long by 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) wide. [1] Most of it is deep enough to accommodate large ships, even close to shore. [1]
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the ...