PrintBreakfast Porridges at the Jamaican Dutchy Cart
You may know The Jamaican Dutchy’s cart on 51st Street and Seventh Avenue for its eye-catching flags, flat-screen TV, or tongue-searing jerk chicken. But as the New York Times tipped us off last week, this vendor does a mean breakfast trade.
While I wasn’t quite up for ackee and saltfish at 7 a.m., the Dutchy’s breakfast porridges sounded like the perfect thing to warm up a chilly Midtown morning. There’s something different in the vat each day, and on Thursday it was hominy corn porridge—a traditional Jamaican dish, left to simmer long and low until the ample kernels soften and the whole porridge thickens.
For $4, I got an enormous steaming cup, sixteen whole ounces of piping hot porridge that even I, a hot-breakfast addict, couldn’t finish. While nothing fancy to look at, it was creamy and sweet, with notes of cinnamon and nutmeg and vanilla, cradling large, squishy hunks of hominy. Tasty and hearty, it was the kind of morning meal that leaves you warmed from within and ready for the day. Especially after a beaming smile from the Jamaican man within.
Here's the daily schedule: Monday is cornmeal porridge, Tuesday is banana oatmeal, Wednesday is plantain, Thursday is the hominy corn discussed above, and Friday is peanut porridge. I just might see you there.
The Jamaican Dutchy
51st Street at Seventh Avenue, New York NY 10019 (map)
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5 Comments:
my lord, it must be hard being a food blogger, having to wait around patiently for a new york times article to give you an idea.
this is one of the ways annoying micro-trends and fads get started in the too-frequently pretentious world of "foodies."
think for yourself and do your own research in the field. it's nyc, you're not going to run out of options anytime soon.
gfood at 7:12PM on 03/09/09
It was actually another food blog - midtownlunch - that first talked about the Dutchy. Zach was posting about it months before it was in the times.
piermont at 11:16AM on 03/11/09
Who cares who posted about something first. I've been to several places that I thought I was the first to write about, but then found it on other blogs. Then I realize that I'm not the only person in NY.
chinolam at 12:16PM on 03/11/09
...anyway that's like saying no one else can write or talk about U2 because Rolling Stone covered them years ago. It's just food.
chinolam at 12:22PM on 03/11/09
This cart was not there when I went hunting this morning for my wednesday plantain porridge. It was my first time going. I scoped every nook and cranny. Went two blocks in every direction from 51st and 7th. Nada. I hope this is still around, but I'm sad and hungry.
rockinTACO at 10:31AM on 03/18/09