Explore authentic Jamaica through a food festival

Explore authentic Jamaica through a food festival. Jamaica has many interesting foods and several annual food festivals. The Portland Jerk Festival is one of the most well-known festivals because it involves one of Jamaica’s most popular forms of cooking: jerk!

Jerk is the process of seasoning and grilling. The meat is rubbed with a mixture of herbs and spices. The main ingredients of the mix are scotch pepper and bell pepper. The meat is then grilled over charcoal or pepper firewood. Jerk at its best has a tangy, juicy, tangy, and tender flavor.

At the festival, anything that can be chopped will be chopped, and over the years new additions such as chopped lobster have added to the “tasty” of the festival. Considered the home of jerk, the town of Boston in Portland Parish attracts jerk lovers from all over the island, who spend hours sampling chicken, pork, fish, sausage, lobster, and sides like bread, festival, and breadfruit.

The food festival includes performances by local artists and community dance groups, arts and crafts displays, a bounce house, merry-go-round and age-appropriate face painting.

Another culinary event that is growing in popularity is the Yallahs Chicken Festival that takes place in the parish of St. Thomas. In the summer months, a wide variety of chicken dishes are on display from vendors from all over Jamaica. Cultural and musical entertainment is also on offer, and chicken lovers flock to the area to “fill their bellies.”

The Westmoreland Curry Festival is one of Jamaica’s premier community food festivals, with attendance numbers growing from 2,000 to more than 10,000 in seven years. The festival is the largest of its kind and continues to be the primary fundraiser for Mannings School, a high school located in Westmoreland Parish.

Other festivals held locally include a Bussu Festival in Portland, which features Bussu meat harvested from the shelled creatures of that name in local rivers; and the Little Ochi Fish Festival at Alligator Pond, Manchester, where you can eat fish cooked in all styles, listen to great music and enjoy the beach too.

In Jamaica, you’ll never go hungry, but a food festival may be just what you need to really appreciate the variety of food that makes Jamaica so unique. Be sure to explore authentic Jamaica through a food festival.