Dream of visiting Jamaica? You can start those travels in the kitchen with traditional Jamaican foods like jerk chicken and rum cake.

More than a dozen eateries provide Mainers with authentic island flavors, while also giving the state's Jamaican population access to the foods they miss from home.

There’s a big menu of under-$40 shareable dishes, like slow cooked baby goat with dum ka gravy, or morels cooked in a spicy ...