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People find JB’s Soul Food and Jerk Chicken restaurant by “following the smoke trail” according to its owner, Jamaican-born Jennifer Hawes. This smoke is essential for good jerk – the Jamaican method of cooking meats, vegetables or seafood over a fire pit (ooooh) or grill (bit more convenient). Ingredients are marinated in a spiced, sweet and hot seasoning and then traditionally cooked over pimento wood in a hole in the ground. Nowadays people tend to use a jerk ‘drum’, a grill made from an oil drum mounted sideways. The cook lifts up the top half of the drum, fills it with coals and grills inside it. “Some people do it in the oven, says Jennifer, and some people do it BBQ but it’s not BBQ, it’s jerk, so it has to be on the…
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