Let’s make a jerk platter for Caribbean American Heritage Month! 🇯🇲🔥 Jerk chicken, jerk pork, and festival. What originated from Jamaica’s indigenous Arawak and Taíno tribes—and became a survival cooking technique for runaway enslaved Africans known as the Maroons—ultimately evolved into one of the island boldest culinary signatures. Each bite brings heat, history, and heart 🖤 I finally got by big girl outdoor grill, so this meal will be on repeat all summer long! #jerkchicken #jerkpork #jam

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 🇹🇹 | Chicken Pelau This comforting one-pot meal bursts with Caribbean flavors and can be eaten any day of the week. As a Jamaican, the most memorable one-pot dish I grew up on was barefoot rice & peas made with red kidney beans and salt pigtail. Usually (at least in my house), it was still served with meat on the side, but I could easily enjoy it alone. A dish like chicken pelau, I would simply call one pot. Do you have a similar dish in your culture? Drop your flag and tell

Puerto Rican culture was the first to introduce me to the word “Taino” didn’t really know about Arawak and how widespread these cultures were | Unclepreacts