At home, “we had fish tea weekly or two times a week,” he told me, adding: “You might see these little kitchens on the roadside — little cookshops. Most of them are selling fish tea ...

Tea is a significant part of Jamaican culture — and not just because its former colonisers are known to drink a great deal of it. Yes, it quenches thirst on hot days. Yes, it is “good fi yuh,” but it ...

Phillips, in London, does the same — the recipe for fish tea in his beautiful 2022 Jamaican cookbook, “West Winds,” calls for pumpkin, yam, green banana, carrot, potato, corn and more.

Sitting around the dinner table with my wife’s family one night, I mentioned to my mother-in-law — born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica — that I wanted to learn to ...