Sentence examples for saltfish from inspiring English sources

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saltfish

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Salt cod: dried and salted cod.

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We enjoyed delicious West Indian breakfasts of okra "chop-up", saltfish, spicy sausage and johnny cakes.

Start the day in the garden with breakfast – an array of home-baked breads, West Indian saltfish or tropical fruits – then strike out and explore the island where a young Horatio Nelson married Frances Nisbet in 1787.

The highest scorer is singer and broadcaster Mica Paris, who got 36 points for her menu of ackee and saltfish, chicken with rice and peas, and lemon vodka sorbet.

Jerk calamari (£7.50) comes with a zinging lime and coriander dip; bammy bruschetta (£7) have finely chopped tomatoes, coriander, mint, and chunky but not too chewy flakes of succulent salt cod; and the ackee and saltfish bakes (£7.50) are scintillating.

Along a stretch of fence were vendors selling breadfruit, homemade "saltfish" and jerk chicken.

"Oh, you like ackee and saltfish?" she said, smiling about my interest in the traditional Jamaican breakfast.

Recently, a Jamaican friend told me about a traditional way of cooking callaloo — sautéed in oil, with chopped onions and flakes of codfish (a.k.a. saltfish), plus a pinch of salt and pepper to taste.

Across Andingmen Inner Street, tucked between a duck vendor and a fruit shop, the take-away shop Jamaica Me Crazy (1 Cheniandian Hutong; 86-010-6592-1254) offerstewed chicken, stewed rice, oxtail, and ackee and saltfish, Jamaica's national dish.

Ackee and saltfish is Jamaica's national dish; the bake only makes it better.

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If you ever tire of the coast, stroll from one cheerfully painted diner to another, in search of the best ackee-and-saltfish, rice-and-peas or conch soup, amid the clack of dominoes.

The man from Transport for London chose one about fathers by Patrick Kavanagh that brought tears to my eyes ("Every old man reminds me of my father... ......) while the Guyana-born poet Grace Nichols read one she'd written 35 years ago, on coming to London, of homesickness for her mother's food ("...I leave art galleries/ in search of plantains/ saltfish/ sweet potatoes").

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