National Geographic Traveller Food

MY LIFE IN FOOD SEAN PAUL

She’d make it with sausages and cabbage and whatnot. When she was 20, she met my Chinese-Jamaican grandfather, and when she came to Jamaica, it was a culture shock for her. Not only was she getting all kinds of Jamaican food, but Chinese dishes from him, too. He’d cook things like fuqua [bitter melon], which looks like a hollow cucumber and is

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