Bammy

Bammy
TypeFlatbread
Place of originJamaica
Main ingredientsCassava flour
Taíno (Arawak) women preparing cassava bread in 1565: grating cassava/yuca roots into paste, shaping the bread, and cooking it on a fire-heated burén.
Fried bammy in Jamaica

Bammy is a traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread descended from the simple flatbread eaten by the Arawaks, Jamaica's original inhabitants. It is produced in many rural communities and sold in stores and by street vendors in Jamaica and abroad.