#ackee

[fattributes]

Ackee and Saltfish

[annax-and-a-lot-more]

remember to feed your children

[vanillaminaduki]

New nekos dropped, courtesy of Nekoconne twitter <3

[morethansalad]

Vegan Jamaican Ackee Patties

[skunkes]

saw this image and immediately saw al in my minds eye..

i keep thinking about this pic its so cute

⬆ crude scribble

[afrotumble]

[dailystarfruit]

I never actually finished Guava Week so pretend this counts for that too

Day 23: Swapped

Those are actual fruits by the way. Swapped Starfruit is a Cherimoya and swapped Guava is a Ackee. You can look them up.

[kemetic-dreams]

Ackee and saltfish is the Jamaican national dish prepared with sautéed ackee and salted codfish.

The ackee fruit (Blighia sapida) is the national fruit of Jamaica. It was brought to the Caribbean from Ghana before 1725 as 'Ackee' or 'Aki', another name for the Akan people, Akyem. The fruit's scientific name honours Captain William Bligh who took the fruit from Jamaica to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England in 1793 and introduced it to science. Because parts of the fruit are toxic, such as the arils prior to the opening of the husk at the ripening stage, there are shipping restrictions when being imported to countries such as the United States.  Salted codfish, on the other hand, was introduced to Jamaica for enslaved people as a long-lasting and inexpensive protein source. In west Africa, ackee is mainly used as medicine or an ingredient for soap and is not consumed as food