Jamaican men and their love of cooking

[blugiant]

so u know the score, eeh blu -- cooking is the way to a woman's heart. in oyinbo culture i think is the other way round

but i don't understand why you wouldnt eat from a woman even if you cook better than her. just because you cook better don't automatically mean she cook bad? or is this another man ting?

inn grad school, mii group came ova mii house fe do owa group project pon sundae. mii cook good mount aff food cah mii wanted sum leff ova fe in da week. mii neva knew wan likkle mzungu ladee cum nyam so. add fe tell ar no food leff aftah tree servinns. wat a mzungu ooman woo luv yaawd food

yaawd ting juss carefull woo mii eat framann mii onlee eat fram a few peeps. plus mii luv good food. mii maddar iss natt a badd cook juss dat mii iss bettar dat y mii tell ar weneva mii see ar dat wii goinn to a good restaurant.

[Wahalla]

Here's a definition of running a boat i found online, part of someone's reminiscences http://www.jamaican-recipes.com/Food...atcooking.html:

Now the way it works when we ‘run boat’ is each man contributes whatever cash in order that the boat can ‘sail’ (cook). For example, if ten men contribute one hundred dollars each, the ‘boat’ has enough money to feed everyone with a variety of foods which includes ‘the salting’ (canned fish, beef, chicken, cooked vegetable).

When the food is ready, the cook shares the food according to the amount of money each man contributes; less money, less food. And, of course, women eat free when they turn-up at the cooking site…Yah Mon!


As some‘boats’ are ‘run’ outside in the bushes in the rural areas of Jamaica, the cooking utensils used in run-a-boat cooking vary from conventional types to the more creative varieties: dasheen leaves, banana leaves, coconut bowls and cups, coconut oil cans, butter pans, among other things.

When a ‘boat’ is ‘run’ in a house, however, the cooking takes on the regular conventional cooking methods which involve the regular rules of Jamaican cooking; also, fewer people are involved in the‘boat. ‘

sorry but it was a more egalitarian approach to the food sharing....