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