Trelawny Yam Festival

Jamaica

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About Trelawny Yam Festival

The yam is one of Jamaica's most mainstream ground arrangements. It can be found in an a significant number of the conventional, nearby dishes and soups, and this occasion, which commends that yam, draws in a huge number of Jamaicans. The celebration is on Easter Monday and incorporates exercises, for example, the Yam By– Product Competition for schools and the Culinary Competition and Demonstration with delineations of the imaginative employments of yam by network individuals, understudies and professiolna cooks. The Trelawny Yam Festival was a thought got from network individuals in 1997 as a method for raising assets to help the nearby network and STEA.

With a network bolster base and with the arranging capacity of STEA the Trelawny Yam Festival was conceived with the aim of praising yam, the sustenance that is so essential to the employments of the general population of south Trelawny. The Festival began little and has developed in attractions and support throughout the years. As the Festival has developed the first setting of Albert Town High School turned out to be too little to have the flourishing Festival. Yams are evidently as flexible as the unassuming shrimp and can be utilized as a part of an assortment of dishes. This makes them more prevalent than Jamaican jolt chicken dishes and the Trelawny Yam Festival intends to indicate guests why this is the situation.

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