Sitting around the dinner table with my wife’s family one night, I mentioned to my mother-in-law — born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica — that I wanted to learn to make fish tea, the aromatic fish ...
Fish tea, the aromatic fish soup of Jamaica, gets its name from a comparatively thin broth that buzzes with the perfume of allspice, thyme, scallion and Scotch bonnet pepper.
Here, the delicate nuance of raw almonds (and almond extract), the warm spiky notes of allspice, and plenty of rum inform my family's version of black cake with a uniquely Jamaican sensibility.