The aroma reaches you before you see the trailer, warm curry, slow-braised oxtail and the smoky spice of jerk chicken drifting across the sidewalk outside building 4488.
For Sam Ledford, owner of Festival Caribbean Bakery and Grill, known simply as Festival, the scent is more than lunch. It is memory, migration and a second act decades in the making.
“Authentic Jamaican,” Ledford said proudly, describing the food he serves from his brightly wrapped truck parked at Garrison headquarters. “Anywhere in Jamaica, you come off the bus stop, you’re going to smell it or see somebody cooking it.”…