Jamaica

For this April vacation I went to Jamaica. We stayed at the Hilton all-inclusive resort so all the food was free. One of the things that Jamaica is most known for is its jerk seasoning. It is a seasoning that is slightly spicy that they put on almost every kind of meat. Chicken, pork, sausage any meat you can think of, they have it with jerk. Not only meat but they also put it in soup. My favorite jerk product had to be the chicken. It was amazing! The chicken was juicy and moist with a little heat. To go with the meat they had a jerk sauce that added spice. Since I am not really a person who likes spicy things, I didn’t eat it with the sauce, however people seemed to rave about it. Although you could get the chicken at any restaurant or buffet, during the middle of the day a person would bring a cart to the beach. In the cart it had the chicken, the jerk sauce and a thing called a festival. Festival is pretty much a dough sort of pastry. It tastes kind of like a dense sweet roll. They were great too. No matter what time of day it was, I was always in the mood for jerk chicken. The day before we were going to leave, my mom and her friend went to all the local shops in search of the jerk seasoning. That was how much we wanted it. Eventually they found it in a shopping center and brought two big bags of it home with us. At first I was afraid to eat at the resort because normally an all-inclusive place did not have good food, but it actually was really good. Our trip to Jamaica was not only a relaxing vacation but also a culinary adventure! -Christina Moore