In the middle stood a large hotplate of glowing charcoal, bearing an earthenware vat in which a dark brown stew simmered gently.

Head here for huge plates of jerk chicken wings, curry goat or chicken and brown stew.

He heard another of those long flabbering noises from below and felt more of the lumpy brown stew begin coursing down his legs.

He was knee-deep in the stream, and had been sifting mud - a brown stew with pebbles and quartz - for an hour.

Rick raised the spoon of glutinous brown stew toward him in greeting, flourished it in the air, and delivered it carefully to his open mouth.

Troi still felt jumpy inside and wasn't sure if she could bring herself to partake of the lumpy green and brown stew.

"Un-American," the angry few grumbled, as we worked to stop the high horsepower motors from churning our small lake into a thick brown stew.

The dishes of the region seem oddly suited to cold weather, featuring combinations of surf and turf (squid and meatballs is a favourite) and sticky brown stews.

Chicken fricassee ($8.25), or Jamaican brown stew, as it is called on the island, is rewardingly herbaceous and oniony.