6. Early B – “Sunday Dish”
Early B continues our claim that Jamaican reggae music is the most health-conscious music genre. On “Sunday Dish,” the deejay pioneer rattles off every ingredient of his recipe, then states, “to eat it every Sunday is the doctor’s wish.” These three minutes are a guide to sustenance, listing natural ingredients—garlic, scallion, coconut, rice and peas, and red snapper fish. If Early B did in fact have this dish every Sunday of his adult life, making it would be as effortless as explaining it in rhyme. Memorizing the recipe, or rather the lyrics, is easy because the mouth-watering verse is so nice, Early B repeats it twice. —Richard “Treats” Dryden