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Allspice
Allspice is one of the most important ingredients of Jamaican Cuisine. Under the name pimento, it is used in Jamaican jerk seasoning, and traditionally its wood was used to smoke jerk in Jamaica.
In the West Indies, an allspice liqueur is produced under the name "pimento dram". In Mexican cuisine, it is used in many dishes, where it is known as Pimienta gorda.
Allspice is also indispensable in Middle Eastern cuisine, particularly in the Levant, where it is used to flavour a variety of stews and meat dishes, as well as tomato sauce.[7] In Arab cuisine, for example, many main dishes use allspice as the only spice.[citation needed]
In Northern European and North American cooking, it is an ingredient in commercial sausage preparations and curry powders, and in pickling.
