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Following on again with Toni's A-Z, a...is for meme, today's letter is J J....is for Jamaican Jerk Seasoning. I found th ese recipes in a book I bought purely for the colourful illustrations and they have proved quite popular with the barbecuing men in the family. This book had my heart from the moment I first saw it. I wandered through the rest of the bookstore, but I knew I wasn't leaving without it. Back in 1999. Best title page ever! Here are a few lines from the book, just to get your mouth watering before I post a couple of the recipes. "Island Barbecue looks at barbecue in the Caribbean from the time Columbus arrived there to find the Amerindians cooking meat and fish on green wood racks over an open fire - boucan - and renamed it barbacoa , or barbecue." "Jamaican jerk cooking......The word jerk has legitimate roots. "Jirk", the Old English translation for the Spanish charqui , described the Amerindian method of preserv...