“We ate a lot of avocados there, which is really nice and something I love to eat. And the fresh fruit in the morning was really nice. The diversity of avocados and the variety in Jamaica was really astounding.”
“We were driving by the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston on our way up into the Blue Mountains. Bob Marley is present everywhere in Jamaica. To actually go by the studios where so many of his albums were recorded and is now a museum was super cool.”
“In the morning, we went fishing with some local guys. They were so excited to teach us traditional Jamaican fishing techniques that they had been doing for 300 years. We were handlining and we got a tuna and mahi-mahi. We went out in a little conga fishing boat and we got to cook the fish when we got back.”
“Just grabbing all the fruits and vegetables that we have literally growing right around GoldenEye and using the tuna that we caught in the morning. Prepping on the beach was super cool to do that right there next to the water.”
“Jamaica doesn’t have those huge, long beaches the way a lot of other Caribbean Islands do. It’s much more of coves and small little beaches. There’s a little cave that you kind of walk down a staircase and a cliff to a hidden beach. It’s really lovely.”
“Everything is cooking from the heart and the soul. It’s very humble cooking, but really delicious food. It’s very rustic and really full of flavor.”
“This is Lion. He is the Rasta that lives in the woods at Pantrepant. His donkey’s name is Stallion. They are just kind of hanging out there. He was taking Stallion for a walk and I grabbed a picture.”
“This is pretty funny because it’s the cashier, but it’s also like cash is the air. It’s an open-air restaurant. There are a couple locations of Scotchies and they are most famous for Jerk Chicken. It’s right on the side of the road and it’s really, really good.”
“The chicken is cooked on these poles and they have a fire smoldering underneath it. The tin is on top of the chicken, so the chicken just sits that way until it’s smoked. It’s jerked because you jerk the poles—you pull the poles back and forth to cook the chicken. We were on our way to the airport and just grabbed some to go.”
“At the night market, it was sort of a smorgasbord festival in Kingston. There were a bunch of different food vendors that have stalls set up at night. They had live music and kind of a walk around tasting.”
“We were at Strawberry Hill, which is in the Blue Mountains. That’s another one of Chris Blackwell’s properties. It’s on the other side of the island from GoldenEye. And it’s a small little boutique hotel that has a handful of rooms. We are looking down over Kingston. You are way up high and kind of this very steep descent down. It was just a really beautiful place. You are literally at the top of a mountain.”
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