Turtle soup, snooker, calepeva
Ethiopia in exile. Jamaica revisited. By B. Pullen-Burry.1905
At the Rio Cobre Hotel lunch should be taken; island delicacies are often served up here to innocents abroad — turtle steaks, turtle soup, snooker, calepeva, or jack-fish cooked in various ways; of cod-fish and ackie let the stranger beware! Jamaican vegetables are numerous and good; cho-cho, garden egg, ochra plantain, yams, and yampis are frequently given. Guava jelly served with cocoanut mik is delicious, so too are the fruit salads; cassava biscuits, and cake sometimes flavoured with island ginger are by no means despicable; a cup of Blue Mountain coffee will complete a typical Jamaican meal.