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The Arawak Indians constructed a grid of wooden sticks, some distance above a shallow pit of smoldering ashes, using green allspice-tree wood (pimenta wood). They then placed the meat on the grid and covered it with allspice-tree leaves (pimenta leaves) along with spices in order to impart further flavour while trapping the smoke for maximum effect.
