Ireland eat of potatoes a week. Consequently, dishes that are considered as national dishes represent a fundamental unsophistication to cooking, such as the Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, boxty, a type of potato pancake, or colcannon, a dish of mashed potatoes and kale or cabbage. Since the last quarter of the 20th century, with a re-emergence of wealth in Ireland, a "New Irish Cuisine" based on traditional ingredients incorporating international influences has emerged. This cuisine is based on fresh vegetables, fish (especially salmon, trout, oysters, mussels and other shellfish), as well as traditional soda breads and the wide range of hand-made
Stew peas available in many areas of the Caribbean, is very popular in Jamaica, and has been described as a national dish of Jamaica. The dish is prepared in various unique ways by Jamaicans, and has been described as a staple dish in Jamaican homes and restaurants. In September 1992, the Jamaican newspaper "The Gleaner" declared stew peas with rice as "the best dish made in Jamaica" in its Home, Living and Food Guide. Stew peas has been a dish in Jamaica since at least the 1940s, and recipes for it began to appear in cookbooks in the 1970s. Stew peas Stew