food Patois words
21 entries
- Ackee A soft, pale-yellow fruit whose ripe arils are cooked as a savoury vegetable; it is Jamaic…
- Bammy A flat, round flatbread made from grated cassava that is pressed, dried and fried or steam…
- Belly full The state of being satisfied and full after eating; more broadly, having enough to eat, co…
- Box food A takeaway meal served in a foam or cardboard box, typically rice with meat and vegetables…
- Bulla A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or brown sugar and spiced with ginger an…
- Bun an cheese The pairing of Jamaican Easter bun, a dark, spiced fruit loaf, with slices of firm process…
- Callaloo A leafy green vegetable (in Jamaica usually amaranth, sometimes taro leaf elsewhere) cooke…
- Cook up To prepare a meal, especially a hearty, generous or improvised one thrown together from wh…
- Dumplin A dense ball or flattened disc of fried or boiled flour dough eaten as a starch alongside …
- Escovitch Fried fish dressed with a tangy, spiced vinegar sauce loaded with sliced onion, carrot, ch…
- Festival A slightly sweet, elongated fried dumpling made from flour, cornmeal and sugar, crisp outs…
- Jerk A method of cooking meat (classically pork or chicken) by rubbing or marinating it in a fi…
- Mannish water A thick, spicy goat soup made from the head, feet, tripe and offal of a goat, often cooked…
- Nyam off To eat up completely, to devour or finish off food entirely, often quickly or greedily so …
- Patty A savoury baked pastry with a flaky, turmeric-tinted crust folded around a seasoned fillin…
- Provisions A collective term for starchy root vegetables and ground crops eaten as the heavy carbohyd…
- Rice an peas A staple Sunday-dinner dish of rice cooked with kidney beans (or pigeon peas) in coconut m…
- Run dung A dish made by boiling down coconut milk until it reduces to an oily, custardy base ('the …
- Scotch bonnet A small, extremely hot chilli pepper with a wrinkled, lobed shape resembling a tam, centra…
- Sky juice A cheap street treat of shaved or crushed ice packed into a clear plastic bag and drenched…
- Sorrel A deep-red drink brewed from the dried calyces (sepals) of the roselle hibiscus plant, ste…