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Ingredients The house was slim and its owner was not. In the narrow kitchen, a pot of never-ending stew cooked on a slow-burning gas ring flame. Breadfruit, onion, cassava, pigtail, pimento, yam, and garlic governed the senses. Agustin Ledford would appreciate it if the Oil Down was left to Boil Down. He left home daily to fetch a “hand ah green fig from de corner” he loved a green fig souse and it showed.