Jamaican Food and Style
Jamaica is a beautiful island south of Cuba, between North and South America. The island has a great deal of "rich agricultural land, and although much of the mountainous are is not very fertile, here and there in the hills are pockets of land which can bear abundantly" (Buisseret, 1969, i). Jamaica's uniformities and diversities concerning their food, as well as their unique religious functions, geography, economics, and technology contribute to their distinctive food culture. Most Jamaicans are able to produce their own food, such as sugar crops, bananas, and citrus fruits (Buisseret, 1969, 58). They use these products in trade, as well as for themselves. Also, they grow a great deal of domestic crops, such as "corn, vegetables, fruits, cassave, yam, cocoes, dasheeen, and sweet potatoes" (Bent, 1966, 44). Though rice is an important food to Jamaicans, they are forced to import it from Guyana, mainly (Bent, 1966, 45). Also, beef cattle, pigs, poultry, fish, an
Buisseret, David. (1969). Historic Jamaica. Barbados: Caribbean Universities Press. Stewart, John. (1971). An Account of Jamaica. New York, NY: Library Press.
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