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Snapshots from Jamaica: Jerk Chicken and Pork at Scotchies

Scotchies was my kind of eating. Everything grilled was served in foil, you ate with your fingers off of paper plates, and the juicy pork and chicken came with bottles of hot sauce made from scotch bonnet peppers, some of the spiciest peppers you can ingest without hurting yourself. Check out the behind-the-scenes process of making jerk meats here.

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4 Comments | Posted by Chichi Wang, December 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: Jamaica, jerk chicken, jerk pork, Snapshots from Jamaica

Street Food Profiles: Get Jerked! in Northern California

In this week's edition of Street Food Profiles we head to the Bay Area in California to meet Get Jerked, a truck selling jerk chicken tacos and burritos and other inventive Caribbean food.

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2 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Tagged: Bay Area, California, Caribbean, chicken, jerk chicken, Oakland, San Francisco, street food, Street Food Profiles

Ja's Jerk Chicken in Chicago: A Wing That Has the Thang

Whoever coined the phrase, "Ain't no thang, but a chicken wang" was clearly a careless philosopher. Because, after a lunch of jerk wings at Ja's Jerk Chicken in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood, I've found some wings that are quite clearly the thang. In fact, two hours after supping on them, my lips are still delighted, if not a touch inflamed, by the chili burn from their jerk sauce. Anyone considering collagen injections should just consider a weekly order of these instead. Ja's has no tables or even the stainless steel chest-high counter--a Chicago staple found at beef stands and rib shacks everywhere. I had to dine with the styrofoam clamshell while holding the wings precariously perched on the console of...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Michael Nagrant, July 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Tagged: Chicago, Flavor Guides, Illinois, Ja's Jerk Chicken, jerk chicken, spicy. @westtown