I-TAL: A Jamaican Grass Roots Food Heritage

I-Tal food is derived from the word "vital", namely natural, pure and clean food. Taste for I-Tal has developed alongside Rastafarian engagement with the valorization of traditional knowledge about health and ethnomedicine, small farming and land use, all while promoting sustainability. Its motto could be " live simply, so that others may simply live".


We will travel the island of Jamaica and meet those who withold the knowledge and culture of "agridishes". A documentary film by Nicoletta Fagiolo & Cedric Danquin in production.

You can visit Teresa, Emile and Christine Chamberlain at JUST NATURAL in West End Negril, Jamaica. Today on Trip Advisor it's rated as the second out of 95 restaurants in Negril.

Special thanks to Sue McKenzie from Judy House Cottages & Rooms, Negril, Jamaica for the use of the kitchen where Michel Crochmore is cooking.