Question: Why Do Jamaican Side Dishes Mirror African American Side Dishes?

[invalid]

Yams
Mac and Cheese
Cabbage
Greens
Red Beans and Rice

Typical side dishes you get at a Jamaican restaurant.

Are these actual authentic Jamaican side dishes or are they catering to American taste (especially if they’re in black neighborhoods)?

If these are authentic Jamaican side dishes, were they cultivated external from AA influence?

 

[TEH]

Slavery

 

[69 others]

yams are african
Mac and Cheese came from the slave masters.
Cabbage: slave masters
......

 

[Joe Budden]

yams are african
Mac and Cheese came from the slave masters.
Cabbage: slave masters
......

Reported.

 

[Sindicated]

I know the american Mac and Cheese was credited to James Hemmings a slave of Thomas Jefferson.

Red Beans and Rice had influence of Native Americans and AA put their touch on it adding meat to it.

The curled leaf mustard greens is grown in the southern united states so that where that came from.

The rest im not sure.

 

[ogc163]

Why do Black Latin Americans use tomato based recipes like WestAfricans but West Indians don't (instead using burnt sugar aka browning)?

 

[ISO]

Anglo colonization

 

[Collateral]

Yams
Mac and Cheese
Cabbage
Greens
Red Beans and Rice

Typical side dishes you get at a Jamaican restaurant.

Are these actual authentic Jamaican side dishes or are they catering to American taste (especially if they’re in black neighborhoods)?

If these are authentic Jamaican side dishes, were they cultivated external from AA influence?

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[invalid]

Slavery

Yeah but Haiti and other Caribbean Islands don’t have the 1-1 cuisine parallel.

yams are african

But the yams are super sweet like AAs. I don’t think you find super sweet yams either on the continent or around the diaspora.

 

[TEH]

Why do Black Latin Americans use tomato based recipes like WestAfricans but West Indians don't (instead using burnt sugar aka browning)?

I think browning is a lazy way to replicate burnt / seared tomatoes


Source: Foodie

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Read the title wrong at first. Idk . But ya if you go to the actual country those are the typical side dishes.

 

[ogc163]

I think browning is a lazy way to replicate burnt / seared tomatoes


Source: Foodie

If the difference between between Pelau vs Arroz con Gandules is representative of anything you might be right about the laziness ( and the difference in Umami).

 

[Brolic]

Mac and Cheese came from ADOS.

......

Fixed

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

if you mean WEST AFRICAN, sure.

Hell, all my Nigerian and Ghanian friends ate the same shyt I did growing up with Jamaican parents

 

[Fillerguy]

Is this a joke? Yall realize Black culture is still Black culture regardless of countries they're from.

Greens, cabbage, yams, rice/beans are all foods historically and currently grown by Western Africans. Cacs specifically sought slaves from West African farming cultures to use their farming skills; most of those foods are difficult to grow and maintain. Because those foods were so stubborn, cacs saw them as low quality and allowed slaves to feast on it.

The only food you listed that's "unquie" to us is Mac and Cheese....which is nothing more than a slave remix of an Italian dish because they didn't have the proper ingredients. A slave's chef made a dish for Washington's wife and she loved it so much that breh blew up and became the first celebrity chef in America