Jerky’s Montego Bay

In Montego Bay patrons in search of tasty jerk and more are quite content to dine at Jerky’s located at Lot 29-30 Fairview Shopping Centre. Manager Ceri Moe told Foodie News that the offerings are jerk chicken, pork, fish, sausages, conch, roast yam, sweet potatoes and fish.

Starapples

Come Friday May 7 there’ll be a new restaurant on the scene called Starapples. It’s another child for the restaurant duo of Michael and Enez Perkins of Rations, (Island Life Mall) winner of the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards Best Meal Deal.

This new restaurant according to Enez Perkins will boast tasty Jamaican fare with interesting seafood pasta dishes and of course, lots of starapples (when in season).

Food, Tea, Queen make us British

What makes Britons British? Fish and chips, drinking tea and the Queen, according to them.

The Beatles, a traditional cooked breakfast of sausages and eggs and Buckingham Palace also made a list published of people, places and pastimes that define Britain.

Top of the 100 Distinctly British Greats list was food – fish and chips tied with roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for first place, each nominated by 73 per cent of people.

Queen Elizabeth II was in third place, chosen by 64 per cent of voters, followed by Buckingham Palace in fourth with 58 per cent.

Next came the cooked English breakfast (56 percent), the Beatles and the Houses of Parliament (both 55 per cent), chain store Marks and Spencer (53 per cent), the master painter Constable (52 per cent) and drinking tea (51 per cent).

Other things that made the list were traits such as queuing, keeping a stiff upper lip and an unwillingness to tackle foreign languages

Herbs

There’s more exciting food news! Have you noticed consumer-friendly sealed bags of fresh fennel, organic dill, medina, parsley, basil, lemon grass and mint on the shelves?

We have, at least at John R Wong New Kingston. What an excellent way of not only introducing many of us to garden herbs, but the smart young farmer Donovan Macdonald who cultivates them in St Ann has also given instructions as to just what to do with them. For example, with lemon grass his advice is to crush and boil leaves for tea. Use in sauces for rich meats. Boil with potatoes over peas. Chop and sprinkle over fruit salad. Add to chocolate for dessert.

The more on these excellent packages is that you can create a table conversation with the help of Ann Marie Wyss of ‘Every Blooming Thing’. The packages of garden herbs are consumer-friendly priced at $60.00. This means that we can pick up lots.