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The History of Jamaican Jerk
What exactly is “Jerk” cooking
Jerk refers to way that a meat, be it chicken, beef, pork, goat, fish, vegetables or fruit it seasoned and cooked. This style comes from Jamaica. The typical cooking style uses a marinade or paste that includes at least pimento, which is often called allspice, and scotch bonnet peppers, also known as habenero. The meat is then marinated and slow smoked over pimento wood. Pimentia o pimento is a Spanish word for pepper and early European explorers mistook this for black pepper, so they called it pimento.
What did this style of cooking start?
Most historians agree Jamaica was settled by the Arawak Indians over 2500 years ago from South America. They used similar techniques to smoke and dry meat in the sun or over a slow fire, that were common in Peru. This was important as the dried beef could be taken or journeys and eaten as is or chopped and reconstituted in boiling water. This ancient technique goes on today and is known ‘JERK’
