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Many Jamaican families enjoy soup for lunch and dinner. Soup is often had alone, but may be served with hard dough bread or Jamaican water crackers. Soups are almost always served piping hot. Chicken foot soup; Conch or janga Soup; Cow cod soup; Fish tea; Gungo peas soup, made with pigeon peas (locally known as gungo peas) Mannish water (goat soup)
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.
A Jamaican patty is a semicircular pastry that contains various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. [1] It is made like a turnover as it is formed by folding the circular dough cutout over the chosen filling, but is more savoury and filled with ground meat.
Owner and Chef Kirk Henry holds up a plate of ackee and salt fish at KJK Jamaican Kitchen at 3348 Vineville Ave. in Macon.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is an American travel and food show on CNN which premiered on April 14, 2013. In the show, Anthony Bourdain travels the world uncovering lesser-known places and exploring their cultures and cuisine. [2]
Jamaica's most popular musical forms are reggae and dancehall. There are also others such as "dub poetry" or chanted verses, Ska and Rocksteady, with its emotionally charged, celebrative beat. Jamaican Americans also listen to a great variety of other music such as: jazz, calypso, soca, rap, classical music, gospel and "high-church" choirs.
Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating in West Africa and practiced in Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica, Belize, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad, and Haiti).
Jamaica Pellen Island Morant Cays. This is a list of islands of Jamaica.There are about 49 islands in the island nation of Jamaica.All islands are in the Caribbean Sea.The island of Jamaica has an area of 10,990 km 2 (4,240 sq mi) and is the third largest island in the Caribbean, after Cuba and Hispaniola.