Street Corner · Spiced Beef Pastry
Patí
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Patí's flaky, turmeric-yellow crust traces directly back to the Jamaican patty recipes that West Indian canal and railroad workers brought with them a century ago.
A hand-sized pastry with a spiced, cumin-and-scotch-bonnet beef filling wrapped in flaky, curry-yellow dough. Street vendors in Colón sell them hot from paper bags outside markets and bus stops.
Why it's made this way: Colón was built by Afro-Caribbean laborers who came to work the railroad and canal, and Patí is the clearest surviving trace of the Jamaican patty tradition they carried into the city's food culture.
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