Ja ma ica

1. Jamaica

2. History • Christopher Columbus 1494 founded • Tainos aka Arawaks were 1st people to live on island, discovered in 900 A.D. • 1665, English naval forces led by Oliver Cromwell invaded Jamaica, captured colonial rival's capital, Spanish Town

3. 3 past leaders 1945: Michael Manley, P.J. Patterson, Portia Simpson-Miller • WWII huge impact on Jamaica • Caused widespread shortage • Involved in Baptist, First and Second Maroon, and Tacky’s war, Invasion of Grenada, and Mount Bay Rebellion

4. Now • She is the seventh Prime Minister of Jamaica, currently serving since January 5 2012

5. Foods Top 10 traditional Jamaican Foods • Ackee & Saltfish • Curried Goat • Mackerel Run Down • Cornmeal Pudding • Beef Patty • Bammy • Rice & Peas and chicken (fried or BBQ) • Toto • Bulla • Dukunoo Dunkunoo tied with string Beef Patty Coconut toto bread

6. Jamaican food most different and delicious food in the Caribbean. • 30 Jamaican food types. • most popular : Barbecue, Jerk, Cereal, Condiments, Culinary Herbs, Spices, Desserts, Fruits, Meat, Poultry, Seafood, Vegetables. • Barbeque Jamaican recipes very popular, easily prepared, and cooked w/ multiple seasonings

7. Jerk food recipes most popular • Jamaican jerk chicken recipes represent Jamaican food most • Seafood most favored • most well-liked Jamaican seafood recipes: fish, lobster, shrimp. • These can be cooked indifferent ways.

8. Vegetables are an admired choice • Use of vegetables admired because use of it in drink recipes • Carrot drink and beetroot drinks mixed with Jamaican herbs and spices such as sarsaparilla • Unique taste and creates healthy choice

9. Diet • Sunday:liver, ackee & saltfish, beetroot, carrot juice, soursop juice, and sorrel(if in season0 • Monday-Friday: • Breakfast-sardine, eggs(fried or boiled), • Lunch-patty & cocoa bread and cheese • Dinner-curry chicken, curry shrimp, escovitch fish, steam fish, oxtails, (Friday dinner eat out) • Saturday:liver w/ banana, dumpling, ham, beef or chicken soup(must)

10. Customs • Reggae big genre of music in Jamaica • Rastafarian big religion in island • Jamaica holds the Guinness World Record for most churches per capita • Majority of people in Jamaica wear flip flops than shoes, and some don’t wear footwear at all

11. Jamaicans wear clothes such as jeans, skirts, shorts t shirts • “Out of many, one people” Jamaica's motto • Currency: American and Jamaican share the same currency money; J$ • Special dishes are made for special holidays; Ackee and salt fish

12. Jamaican schools start first week in September and end last week of June or first week of July • A law states must go to school • Primary, secondary, tertiary, and university educations

13. Rastafari • Developed in Jamaica 1930’s • Young Africa centered religion • Developed after coronation of Haile Selasse I, and belief is he’s God and he will return to African members in black community who are living in exile • Rastafarians, Rastas, Sufferers, Locksmen, Dreads or Dreadlocks http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/ataglance/glance.shtml

14. Red signifies the blood of those killed for the cause of the black community, throughout Jamaican history • Green represents Jamaica's vegetation and hope for the eradication of suppression • Gold symbolises the wealth of Ethiopia • Black signifies the color of the Africans who initiated Rastafari http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/ataglance/glance.shtml

15. Holidays • Christmas- 25th & 26th • August 6th- Independence Day • During Christmas, Jonkanoo- dress up

16. Preparing Jerk Chicken • Ingredients: • ½ cup of malt vinegar • 2 teaspoons dark rum • Scotch bonnet peppers • 1 red onion chopped • 4 green onion tops chopped • 1 teaspoon dried thyme or 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves chopped • 2 teaspoons olive oil

17. 2 teaspoons of salt • 2 teaspoons freshly ground pepper • 4 teaspoons ground all spice • 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon • 4 teaspoons ground nutmeg • 4 teaspoons ground ginger • 2 teaspoons molasses • 5 or 6 pound chicken cut in half lengthwise • ½ cup of lime juice • Salt and pepper

18. Listen carefully to hear how to prepare jerk chicken

19. Preparing Ackee & Salt Fish • Ingredients: • ½ pound of salt fish • ½ fresh ackees or 1 (drained) can of tinned ackees • 1 medium onion • ½ tsp black pepper • 3 tbsp of butter • ½ a hot chili pepper (ideally Scottish bonnet) • 1 sweet pepper • 1 chopped tomato • 1 sprig fresh thyme or 1 tsp dried thyme

20. Optional: • 2 cloves of garlic • 4 scallion (or spring onions) • 6 slices of bacon

21. Please listen to us explain how to prepare and cook the dish Ackee and Saltfish

22. Bibliography • Top 10, . (2014). Top 10 Jamaican Traditional Foods. Top 10. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.top10jamaica.com/top-10-traditional-jamaican-foods/. • Scott, Colin. (2012). Ackee. Get Jamaica. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.getjamaica.com/Jamaican%20Food.asp. • Bauer, Elise. (2003-2014). Jerk Chicken . Simply Recipes. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/jerk_chicken/. • Bauer, Elise. (2003-2014). Jerk Chicken . Simply Recipes. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/jerk_chicken/. • Polly, T. (November 2003). The Rough Guide to Jamaica. New York/London • Jamaican History I. Geography & History of Jamaica. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.discoverjamaica.com/gleaner/discover/geography/history1.htm. • Maps of World Company, . (January 15, 2013). Facts About Jamaica . Maps of World. Retrieved 23 January, 2014, from http://www.mapsofworld.com/jamaica/information-on-jamaica/facts.html.