All afternoon, people lined up for Shelly Flash’s specialties: jerk cheese nachos and jerk chicken dinner tacos — that’s chicken, coconut rice, black beans, sweet plantains, pickled slaw, chipotle aioli and jerk sour cream inside a soft tortilla.
The Jamaican taco business, 2 Girls & a Cookshop, is owned by Ms.
Flash was a schoolteacher before the pandemic but last year decided to make food a full-time gig, she said.
The city’s Black population has declined by nearly 200,000 people in the past two decades.
“I love this organization, focusing on the businesses and the Black people that are here and saying, ‘Hey, we’re still here.’”
Persons:
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Organizations:
Weeksville Heritage Center
Locations:
Jamaican, Brooklyn