Most countries that produce rum require the spirit to be aged, so for our purposes, we will define rum as an aged spirit. This means we will not consider Brazilian cachaça to be a form of rum, since it is unaged.
Finally, if instead of the word rum, you see ron or rhum on a label, don’t worry. You’re merely seeing either the Spanish (ron) or French (rhum) variant of the same word. It’s all rum. Cane quickly became the staple crop of the Caribbean, providing refined sugar to Europeans and molasses to the New England rum industry. European colonists carried it into much of Central and South America. Cane is now grown in more than 100 countries, supplying not just rum and refined sugar, but also ethanol.
Scallions (Patois: Scellion, Escallion)
These alliums serve as base and finishing aromatics and are particularly important in filling out the flavor of pan sauces, as in the spicy, thin-sliced steak and bell peppers dish called pepperpot steak, and the Jamaican version of pot roast.
