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Jamaica’s 5 Best Street Foods

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - August 31, 2017
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FESTIVAL These starchy deep-fried fingers will make you break your diet – but it’ll be worth it. Made from flour and cornmeal, sugar and salt, they’re most popular as an accompaniment (along with the fried cassava bread, bammy) to fried or escoveitch fish. The slight sweetness mitigates the pepper of the escoveitch drizzle, and their small size makes it shockingly easy to devour many more of the golden-brown dumplings than you’d intended.


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