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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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  • Market traders selling vegetables, and a man cooking in a long-handled pan on a brazier; beyond, an ancient wall and a rotunda. Etching by J. Pelletier after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • The Ermaline cooking bag : made from pure vegetable parchment, guaranteed tasteless and odourless / manufactured solely by C. Davidson & Sons, Ltd.
  • The Ermaline cooking bag : made from pure vegetable parchment, guaranteed tasteless and odourless / manufactured solely by C. Davidson & Sons, Ltd.
  • The Ermaline cooking bag : made from pure vegetable parchment, guaranteed tasteless and odourless / manufactured solely by C. Davidson & Sons, Ltd.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Where quality curry costs less : Indian & Bengal cuisine : all food cooked with cholesterol free vegetable oil : free delivery / Dilwar Tandoori & Balti Takeaway.
  • Smyrnium olusatrum L. Apiaceae. Alexanders, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley. Distribution: W & S Europe, Mediterranean. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Hipposelinum. Alexanders or Alisanders, provoke urine, expel the afterbirth, provoke urine, help the strangury, expel the wind.’ Culpeper has taken this mainly from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (circa 100 AD). The genus name is said to derive from Smyrna, a city which was founded by Alexander the Great (although there was one which pre-dated his Smyrna). on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. The species name comes from the Latin olus meaning a pot herb (cooking vegetable) and atrum meaning black, in reference to the seeds. It is described as tasting like a rather bitter, second-class celery. The English name may derive from Alexandria or Alexander the Great. It is rarely used in herbal medicine now. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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