Festivals: The Side Nobody Talks About

What's a "festival"? Not the party kind. The fried dough kind.

A Jamaican fried bread made from flour, cornmeal, sugar, and a little spice. Slightly sweet. Dense. Crispy outside, soft and pillowy inside.

You eat them with jerk. The sweetness cuts the heat. The density soaks up the sauce.

It's like how Italians dip bread in olive oil — except we dip fried dough into jerk marinade and call it a meal.