Kartel Kitchen Brings Jamaican College Students in Plattsburgh, New York a Weekly Taste of Home

The Kartel Kitchen, which refers to the weekly transformation of a student apartment into a place where Jah-Shea Sutherland, a writing-arts-education major, and Denise Brown, a journalism major, make Jamaican food for at least 40 fellow State University of New York at Plattsburgh students. Sutherland and Brown, who are both full-time students with full-time jobs, […]

Did you know Jamaica was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to produce bananas commercially?

It is believed that bananas developed in the hot and tropical climate of southern Asia and that it was one of the first foods actively cultivated by humans. Bananas require a climate where temperatures range between 10°C and 40°C, a range found between the latitudes of the 30S and 30N. Historians believe that Alexander the […]