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 ...

Sorrel tea . Cooks steep dried hibiscus buds (called sorrel in Jamaica) with fresh ginger and sugar, then chill the tea overnight. They serve it with ice, a splash of soda water, and a squirt of lime.

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 ...

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.