Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!
Day 20: Jamaica
Two food-related traditions from Jamaica for Easter.
The one you eat is bun, which is a bread similar to the traditional hot cross bun, except that it's made with molasses and in a loaf form. Locals eat slices of bun with cheddar cheese (the orange stuff), though no one seems to know why.
The one you don't eat involves cracking an egg into water (holy or not, I've seen both) on Holy Thursday, letting it sit overnight, and then seeing what shape the egg white took as a clue for what the coming year may hold (for example, if it looks like a heart you may find love). I wasn't able to find much of any history of this practice (called "egg setting"), but I did find this video saying it's done in Trinidad as well, so it may be something that started elsewhere but really caught on in Jamaica.
28 March 2019
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