Jamaican breads

type of bread

Bammy is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread descended from the simple flatbread called casabe, eaten by the Arawaks / Taínos, Jamaica's indigenous people. Variations of bammy exist throughout the Americas. It is produced in many rural communities and sold in stores and by street vendors in Jamaica and abroad. ==History== ===Origin=== thumb|Taíno (Arawak) women preparing casabe (cassava bread) in 1565— grinding cassava/yuca roots into paste with a metate and mano, shaping the bread, and cooking it on a fire-heated burén. thumb|Casabe (cassava bread) preparation in 1791— with stone mortar

Jamaican fried dumpling