Jerk (cooking)
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Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet-marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.
Jamaican jerk chicken
Allspice (dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica)
Scotch bonnet peppers native to Jamaica (cultivar of Capsicum chinense)
Taíno term barabicu or barbacoa means “framework of sticks”—a wide range of structures, including earth oven or cooking pit and a raised wooden grill for roasting and smoking foods.
Scotch bonnet
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Scotch bonnet is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. It is native to the Americas—a cultivar of Capsicum chinense, which originated in the
Jerk (cooking)
…including modern wood-burning ovens. Chicken or pork is usually jerked, and the main ingredients of the spicy jerk marinade/sauce are allspice and Scotch bonnet peppers, which are native to Jamaica and were cultivated by the Taínos. The word "jerk" is said to come from charqui, a Spanish term of Quechua origin…
Scotch bonnet chili pepper
Scotch bonnet peppers in a Brazilian market, in Tabatinga— a town along the Amazon River.
A single ripe scotch bonnet pepper.