The Boston Jerk Center is where many say jerk pork originated, and you can sample a variety of chefs' interpretations here.

Given how good the jerk chicken is, I was surprised that the jerk pork ($6.95) was so bland.

Jamaica's jerk pork and jerk chicken are the most famous examples, but what I find infinitely more ingenious is the Bajan treatment.

Others include fried flying fish, a specialty of Barbados, and Jamaican jerk pork and jerk chicken.

Sample the taste of ackee cooked with saltfish, Jamaica's national dish, and the smell of hot jerk pork cooked in a pit barbecue.

The jerk pork is excellent: a huge portion of tender long-cooked slices of pork, served in a tangy brown sauce.

A lot of people have been coming in who don't eat jerk pork.

We lure some guests to our house with the promise of jerk pork, then hit them with a gnarly appetizer: cow heart, fresh off the grill.

Tablemates eating the dry, chewy pork chops or the equally arid medallions of jerk pork had a different answer.

The Shack at Ocho Rios specializes in tropical barbecue and serves excellent jerk pork.