Unfortunately Negril doesn't have much of the true Jamaican food. There's a few places that prepare it, like One Mile, and some of Chicken Lavish, but generally the restauranteurs know that the taste buds of the average tourist can't or won't handle the real Jamaican cooking. Going to Hellshire beach for fish and lobster (lobster cheaper than fish) and great festival is a rare treat. Haven't been there in years. Gangs have taken over the beach area, so we go to Ft. Clarence, just a few miles north, and the food is as good or better. Attending a Jamaican wedding or church dinner one gets the real mannish water, with all the offal that the normal tourist tries to avoid...
Debbie's favorite soup is the Cow Skin soup, and that's virtually unheard of in the Negril areal.
True, there is some good and real Jamaican cooking to be had in the Negril area, but the normal tourist rarely encounters it.
Too bad.
When was the last time you had Stew Peas, made the right way with corned pig tails?
Dave
