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Baker, Seasonal Agricultural Worker from Jamaica

We may be far from home, but we still cook real Jamaican food while we’re here. We have someone that comes by with Jamaican spices for us, so we can cook big dishes for each other. The best thing to make is curry chicken. Canadians should really eat more curry chicken. But not just any type of curry, you have to choose Jamaican curry seasoning – that has the best flavour. It’s also important to pick the right mangos for your curry. When cooking with mangos, you don’t want the juicy ones. Those ones are too sweet, no good for cooking. For cooking, you want to look for the harder ones and steam those down. That’s how you get it to taste right. When cooking here, it`s just like cooking for my family back home.