Jamaican Food

Jamaican food comes from many places around the world, from people who inhabited the island in its history. Peoples like the Spanish, Chinese, African, British, and Indians have influenced Jamaican cuisine. Most dishes are traditional from cultural influence and they are composed of locally grown crops. Common ingredients are a local fruit known as ackee, black pepper, pineapple, avocado, mangoes, etc. Common dishes are things such as curry goat or ackee with cod. The food is delicious and almost everything they make is grown right there on the island. Poorer families eat a lot simpler and their breakfast would contain a single mango rather than a complete dish. Jamaican food can be simple, or can be decadent and delicious.