Question about ackee...

[Nugget]

Re: Question about ackee...

mymymy. me nuh know whaa gwaan wid de man.
looks like a still no work.
well you go to www.eatjamaican.com
click pon de westerneurope
hopefully work.

[Tuff Gong]

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Anyway why am I telling her to get it from North America when I am pretty sure if it is not available in FRance she can easily get a can from England?

Nugget....I will check out the links myself...Peace

[daughterofmemory]

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Originally posted by grandma2:
[qb]sorry BettyJ just found out the Ackee cannot be shipped out of the USA,sorry bout that.[/qb]

Come on Grandma2, don't feel sorry for it, it's not your fault if Ackee can't be shiped outide the US!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Love. BettyJ.

[daughterofmemory]

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Hi Nugget!!!

Sorry, I almost forgot to thank you for the link. It does work. It's fascinating to imagine that you could tell me from Canada where to find Jamaican food!!! The Internet is really a most surprising invention!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I'll go as soon as I return from holidays (I'm leaving Paris on Sunday and shall be back on Thursday) and promise to give you my feedback!!! Love. BettyJ.

[Nugget]

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Hey Betty J,
You are very welcome man.
I just want you to try Our famous Jamaican National Dish "Ackee & Salt fish Served with
Fried Dumpling and plantain.

<<<by the way, When you purchase Canned Ackee,
Don't forget "Saltfish".
You could get them @ Italian Grocery store too.

well, Gal fren
Have a good Trip and see you around.
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[daughterofmemory]

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Hi Nugget.

I shall try it, for sure!!! I supppose you're right, I could get ackee from an Italian Grocery Store. Problem is, I'm in Pisa you see, quite a Provincial and small place so I'm not sure they've got ackee there. I know of a place there though where one could buy traditional chinese and Indian ingredients as well as other things. It might be interesting to start from there as I heard that you could find roughly anything in terms of food there. I think I'll try therefrom. I'm going to Rome in April anyway and I'm sure I'll find some there, you'll just find anything in a capital city really!!!! But as someone suggested, if I want some cans, I may as well get them from England (I could ask the Afro Caribbean Society in my university if they would know where I could get them from). I'll try the restaurant as well. "Problem" is, I'm going on holidays to Eastern France (today as a matter of fact) and we'll be eating lots of food with lots of melted cheese there (because that's what they eat over there) so I may be feeling a bit too heavy for ackee and saltfish when I come back!!! I'll try though, and I'm sure I'll make it. After all, I managed to eat at the Macdonald's for three meals in a row once, it means that my stomach knows how to resist to large quantities of food!!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Nugget]

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hey girl, How are you?
I meant you can pick up "Salt fish" @ Italian store. Not the Ackee.
Ackee come from Africa Origin. I bet you can only find @ West Indian store or African store.

I would try call restaurant first to see thier business hour first. ask dem serve thier or not.

anyway, try stay a way from those heavy daily foods and process foods as much as you can. (I love them but it is not good for us.)

peace [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[hatwearer]

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My 10 year old ackee tree sets fruit but when they are about 1 inch long (or smaller) they fall off leaving only a few to mature on the tree.
The tree has its roots down into the water table so it's not a lack of water.
Please could anyone tell me what might be causing it and what I can do about it. Thanks [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Simmy]

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hatwearer, your ackee tree may be getting too much water and you should be sure to fertilize it around the roots sometimes. I'm not an expert horticulture or agriculture person so I can't firmly answer that question for you, but I do knoh ackee doesn't need an over abundance of water. Try planting another one on different ground with less water table and see what happens in a few years for that one, if you can. Sorry to hear your tree is not bearing as you would like it to though.

[Kathy-Ann]

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I was going to ask same question in this forum, but I got my answer too [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] thx u

[Q3210]

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Hello Simmy, Can`t but admire how you and Granma2 run things in and out of the kitchen.
Never short of a recipe or an answer.
Do Africans eat Ackee?
MsPeaches where are you? Ghana?
If they do, Ackee should be available in France to the many Africans there.

[hatwearer]

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Thanks Simmy,I didn't know if this was the appropriate place to ask that question. Do you know of a forum for tropical gardeners? I'll certainly try fertilizing the ackee tree. You maybe right about it having too much water - my yellow-heart breadfruit bears well 20 yards away and I've seen other breadfruit trees growing well in damp conditions.
You know how on the hillsides you see yams being grown with tripods for their vines to cling to? Are only (purple)yampies grown this way or do the other yams receive the same treatment?

[Simmy]

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Originally posted by hatwearer:
Thanks Simmy,I didn't know if this was the appropriate place to ask that question. Do you know of a forum for tropical gardeners? I'll certainly try fertilizing the ackee tree. You maybe right about it having too much water - my yellow-heart breadfruit bears well 20 yards away and I've seen other breadfruit trees growing well in damp conditions.
hatwearer, this is the appropriate place, we talk about gardening here as well as food and recipes. Usually from spring to end of fall we have a regular gardening thread which is now in the archives. Here's 2 threads I found:

http://www.jamaicans.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=000054

http://www.jamaicans.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=000471

I lived in the Blue Mountains many years ago amongst the farmers there and never saw ackee planted close to the water table, they usually were planted way above the table and grew well, with only the rains to water them. The breadfruit trees were usually found growing a bit closer to the table.
You know how on the hillsides you see yams being grown with tripods for their vines to cling to? Are only (purple)yampies grown this way or do the other yams receive the same treatment?

All yams are grown this way, if not a tripod, then something to support the vines, tall enough for them to grow upward on. Cho cho vines are supported in a similar manner as well.