An Analysis of the Jamaican Food and Style Essay

Jamaican Food and StyleJamaican Food andStyleJamaica is a beautiful island south ofCuba, between North and South America. The island has a great dealof "rich agricultural land, and although much of the mountainous are isnot very fertile, here and there in the hills are pockets of land whichcan bear abundantly" (Buisseret, 1969, i). Jamaica's uniformitiesand diversities concerning their food, as well as their unique religiousfunctions, geography, economics, and technology contribute to their distinctivefood culture.Most Jamaicans are able to produce theirown 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 forcedto import it from Guyana, mainly (Bent, 1966, 45). Also, beef cattle,pigs, poultry, fish, and sheep are a significant part of the Jamaican foodconsumption. They raise them themselves, though sheep rearing isa great deal less successful. Most of the meat consumed in Jamaicais imported or grown by a few local livestock owners. Jamaicans buytheir goods at markets in the largely populated cities (Bent, 1966, 75-78).Planters are well respected in Jamaican society, since they tend to bemore well-off than most (Stewart, 1971, 126). Most food preparationinvolves pepper and the cook's "special ingredients" however, much ofthe cooking of meat is done in small drums on charcoals (Johnson, 1982,25). Jamaicans are much like Americans concerning their food storage.They keep dried foods in pantries and keep milk, etc. in refrigerators(Johnson, 1982, 84). The act of eating itself is also "modernizedjust like the United States" (Johnson, 1982, 86). Also, theydispose of food in the generalized dumps, though mainly, food is not wastedin the Jamaican culture.The only unique function of the Jamaicanfood culture is the drinking that occurs during the reggae concerts.The concerts occur almost everywhere in smaller, more rural areas, andthe Jamaicans drink a great deal of rum....

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