What is Jerk?
Jerk cooking is an old jamaican way of cooking meat over 250 years old, brought to the island by the African hunters who were enslaved by the British during the seventeenth century. Jerk cooking is an authentic jamaican way to cook pork, chicken, beef and seafood over a fire pit or on a closed barbeque smoke pit. What makes jerk, is its taste. In the combination of the blended spices used [scallion, onions, fresh hot peppers, salt and many more] that is what makes jerk what it is. Jerk cooking is the perfect reflection of jamaican life style, sweet, spicey, hot and irie [charismatic]. The spices used that are in jerk seasoning have a very special pungency taste. These spices are world famous for their natural oil and aromatic contents and are pronounced to be lower in cholesterol intake than any other spices in the world. However the combination of these spices that is what increases the appetite of the people in the consumption of jerk. Jerk is traditionally served with jamaican festi
