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About Us
Jamaica is a small island surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, we have a rich history with many inhabitants and visitors from as early as AD600.
Our land is blessed with lofty palm and coconut trees, rivers, salt marshes, river falls, natural springs, coves,
We boast different types of products, including: Jamaican Rum, Blue Mountain Coffee, sugar, bananas, pineapples, pimento(all spice), molasses, mangoes an’ such di like. East Indian is my favorite mango fi real.
Our motto is “ out of many, one people” because of our rich heritage and influences from people all over the world. Tainos, Spaniards, Jews, Portuguese, Africans, English, Germans, China, Middle East, India and more. Our local language is “patois” derived from so many different languages. Our ‘proper’ language is English (British Influence).
Wi food
spicy, plenty peppah, and tons of flava. Our cuisine is rich because of our different ethnic combinations: The Rastafarians eat differently with the Ital food.
Our Music
One Love Bob Marley. My favorite Marley songs are Babylon System and Ambush in the Night, really all a dem. I Love Damian Marley, Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Morgan Heritage, Sean Paul, Mossy Kid
Favorite sport
cricket wid Dre Russ, Courtney Walsh, Ambrose, Brian Lara, Tendulkar,
Sayings
Y Pree and “tek weh yuself”
Jamaica
Land, trees, wata, nuff people, respec’ wha gwaan, ‘likkle but wi tallawah’ I grew up in Jamaica, started cooking at age 8 I was always in the kitchen. Mom had a little cook shop/ restaurant where we produced excellent quality food all day. Fried dumpling was my favorite.
I became a teacher as my dream called, migrated to the US, but the cooking would never leave me. It was ingrained in me. I taught for a total of 20 years, was an administrator for a short time and decided that the classroom and school were no longer my happy place.
Contrary to all expectations, I left and decided to go back to my roots, what I do with ease, and little distractions. In Jamaica we cook from scratch, a little dis, a little dat, nuff of dis and a pinch of dat and the food was scrumptious. As I planned for the past year, I realized that I needed to maintain ideal taste across the board so I’ve been paying attention (measuring) to dis a dat thus creating authentic recipes from my granny, grandpa and mom.
It was an intense and robust journey, many visits to Jamaica, many tasters, many haters and some criticism. Whichever category you fall into, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. You were instrumental in the outcome of my journey. God bless you all! One Love I wish you Nuff Nyamin’ and Walk good.
