Jamaican cuisine is representative of all the races and cultures who have called the island nation home. Some of the dishes we all know today, such as curried goat, jerk chicken, ackee and saltfish, and Jamaican patties were created in Jamaica from ingredients imported to the island by those who arrived from Asia, Africa, and former colonizer England. These worldwide influences converged on "the Rock" to create one of the Caribbean's most delicious cuisines. To read more about the dishes you should try while on your Jamaican getaway, click here.