NYT Celebrates the Glory of Jerk

Today's New York Times has a feature on jerk chicken. I was shocked that none of the establishments from PLG made it into the article. With such a large Jamaican population beyond the borders of PLG I obviously shouldn't have been, but I love our local jerk. (Some of it, anyway.)

The featured businesses were Crown Heights jerkery McKenzie's (Utica between Carroll and Crown), Flatbush's Boston Jerk City (Utica and Foster) and Prospect Heights' The Islands (my personal favorite Caribbean joint, at Washington between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln).

Fortunately, PLG gets a little love in the photo essay that accompanies the article. The broiler man pictured here is slide #3.

Of particular interest to me was the Jamaican Dutchy food cart, as it is parked mere blocks from my office in midtown. Who doesn't love something that makes them feel at home when they are trapped in a foreign borough?