Caribbean culinary history on display at 2018 Jamaican Jerk Festival

THOUSANDS OF visitors to the Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival last Sunday interacted with pieces of history at the Taste the Islands Caribbean Culinary Museum and Theater.

Guests were able to read about the origins of foods typical to the region on a number of graphically illustrated poster boards. They were also able to touch and smell some of the noted food elements, like curry, cane sugar, coffee and tamarind, and observe artefacts, including a coal stove, a three-legged dutch pot, an ice shaver, and vintage ceramics.

Following their successful execution of the Caribbean Culinary Museum and Theater at the 2018 Taste the Islands Experience (TTIX), the event’s producers installed the exhibit temporarily at the Jerk Festival in Sunrise, Florida.

It was conceived and created collaboratively by Calibe Thompson, one of the producers of TTIX, and Marsha McDonald, producer of the Diversity in Arts design discussion series, as part of a series of artistic and cultural presentations promoted within Broward County.

The next scheduled installations of the Caribbean Culinary Museum and Theater will run from February 18 through to March 16, 2019, at the Lauderhill Museum, supported in part by Commissioner Howard Berger, and then at the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society from April 26 to 28 as part of the 2019 Taste the Islands Experience.

The expanded culinary festival will include gastronomycentric activities in multiple locations across downtown Fort Lauderdale.

Find out more at www.ttiexperience.com.