Patty is the everyman’s food: traditionally exempt from tax and only recently has it reached the previously unimaginable price of $100. And then we tried the Suzie’s Bakery uptown $200 chicken patty. And you know what, it really is that good.

Apart from the price its hardly convenience food. You’ll have to phone ahead to [...]

Patties are unhealthy!? Well we knew they’re not exactly a health food, but NYC officials are even less impressed. They ordered one Jamaican bakery to change its shortening ingredient, part of a city wide ban on trans fats…or be fined US$2,000.
Patties have long been popular within the five boroughs, which has a large Jamaican population.
But [...]

Twenty teams of the country’s best BBQ cooks will be competing this Sunday at the All Jamaica Invitational Grill Off in Kingston.
Reading today’s Gleaner it was this that caught the eye or nose, or taste buds: Tamarind bar-b-que chicken with cilantro and barbecue rib-eye roll with Stone’s Ginger Wine, oyster sauce and garlic.

With 1,500 patrons [...]

Smoked marlin, ricotta spring rolls, jerk rosemary tenderloin with bearnaise sauce and a 50th birthday party on the idyllic south coast near Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth.
It’s not every day one lives to half a century, but if you do, make sure the food makes you glad that you made the journey.

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards

A spicy new fusion of Jamaican/Asian cuisine, this recipe is intended for large gatherings and intimate dinner parties when typical Jerk fare is simply not enough. – J
Julius’ Original Satay Jerk Chicken with Hoisin