scotch bonnet
Cultural layer
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Alfred W. Crosby, 1972)
Jerk: Barbecue from Jamaica (Helen Willinsky, 1990)
Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking (Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau, 2017)
Jerk: Barbecue from Jamaica (Helen Willinsky, 1990)
Belly Full: Caribbean Food in the UK (Riaz Phillips, 2017)
Route
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This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.
1 of 404 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype
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- Segments
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- Confidence
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- Summary
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Rite
The scotch bonnet is dropped into a Jamaican pot whole and taken out before it bursts, so the dish carries the perfume and not the full heat, and bursting it is a cook's error with consequences. It is the required chili of jerk and of pepper pot. Heat used as an aromatic rather than as a test of endurance is a distinction the Caribbean makes and the wing-eating contest does not.
Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking (Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau, 2017)
Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled
FoodwayPresent as a living food culture.
No names recorded.
Connections
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Jerk seasoning base.
Hot pepper sauces.
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Caribbean curries and rundown.
The jerk pair.
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Scotch bonnet (ata rodo) is the specific pepper, more precise than generic chili.
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Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place.
Studio Culinar-E, "scotch bonnet", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/scotch-bonnet
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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.