| ackee
- vegetable that, after cooking, resembles scrambled
eggs; when served with saltfish (cod) it's the national dish
bammy - flat
cassava cake
boiled green
banana - unripe banana, boiled and salted
bulla - a
ginger sweetcake or hard cookie
cow foot soup -
cow
hooves and vegetables in soup
escoveitch -
pickled
fish, lightly cooked
festival -
a
deep-fried, sweet cornbread
Irish moss -
gelatinous extract of seaweed which can be mixed with milk, nutmeg, or rum
and used as a drink or jelly; said to be an aphrodisiac
janga -
small crayfish
jerk - slow-roasted
meat prepared with a mixture of pepper, pimento, nutmeg, cinnamon, garlic,
scallions, salt, and the cook's secret ingredients
mannish water -
sounds
like a Muddy Waters tune, but it's actually a soup of goat meat and
vegetables
matrimony -
dessert
of orange segments with crushed apple in cream
mauby - strong
drink made from the eponymous tree; tastes like muscular sarsaparilla
patty - spicy
ground meat baked in a pastry shell
rice and peas -
popular side dish; the peas are kidney beans
run down, run
dun - sauce made from coconut cream
Salomon gundy -
pickled,
spiced herring
saltfish -
salted
cod
sea grape -
shrub
found near coastal regions that produces a grape-size, sweet fruit
sorrel - flowering
plant from which sweet jams, candies, drinks, and wine are made, often
served during the Christmas holidays
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