Did You Know: The culinary style known as "Jamaican jerk" refers to the Jamaican method of cooking meat, seasoned with pimento (allspice) over an open fire. This barbecue style goes back more than 1,200 years to when the Taino Arawak Indians, the island's original inhabitants, used chilies, spices and wild garlic to rub into their meat and cook it slowly over a hot, wooden grate known as a barbakoa. - - UCTP Taino News © 2010
