Caribbean
Food Emporium
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Food Emporium
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News Update 1 - March 02 - October 02
March 2002 Caribbean
Food Emporium is registered with Yellow Pages and Yell.comCaribbean
Food Emporium is registered with Caterer and Hotel Magazine, and Catering.comCaribbean
Food Emporium attends the Hotel and Catering Exhibition in Bournemouth.
No Caribbean representation found, though there were a number
of indigenous companies selling tropical flavoured products and curry
sauces.Caribbean Food Emporium attends the Ideal Home Exhibition, to
see if there is any Caribbean Food represented. One stall
found - promoting sauces and drinks.
April 2002 Caribbean
Food Emporium can now be found through Search Engines: Yahoo,
Google, Alta Vista, and many others.Caribbean Food
Emporium was featured in the New Nation Newspaper, April 1st.Dates
set and bookings made for 2 eventsInterview
with BBC Radio London BBC TV Documentaries contacts Caribbean Food Emporium
- re the search for a Caribbean Family to be filmed having a typical
Sunday Lunch.The Sunday Telegraph contacts Caribbean Food Emporium -
re the packaged Caribbean foodsCaribbean Food Emporium attends Business
Symposium for African and Caribbean Businesses, London Development Agency.Caribbean
Food Emporium makes person to person and telephone contact links with: Orlando
Satchell - top caribbean chef and caterer. Neil
Hill - Director - Grace Foods (UK)Pauline Clark - Marketing Director,
Enco.
May 2002 Caribbean
Food Emporium now listed in About Food DirectorySite being used by school
students for research into Caribbean Food for GCSE project work.Caribbean
Food Emporium visits the Mango Room, (Camden) and Peppers and Spice
(Dalston)Caribbean Food Emporium observes frontage of Granny's (Clapton)
and Posh Nosh and De Lick (Hornsey)Caribbean Food Emporium makes shortlist
for Windrush 2002 Achievement Awards, the event to be held at the Dorchester
Hotel, Friday 21 June.Caribbean Food Emporium visits P'Tani Restaurant
(Stoke Newington)BBC TV contacts Caribbean Food Emporium re launch event
for new programme and book about the history of Jamaican music, to be
aired 13th July 2002.Caribbean Food Emporium meets with representative
from UK Black Links.Former owner Blue Gardenia Caribbean Restaurant
makes contact and update with Caribbean Food Emporium.
June 2002 MetLife
Law department requests information about Caribbean FoodCaribbean Food
Emporium is invited to speak about Caribbean Food by BBC Radio Manchester.
Interview aired live Wednesday 19 June, 2002 11.35amCaribbean Food Emporium
- team and guests attend Windrush Achievement Awards 2002 at Dorchester
Hotel, Park Lane, London.Dawn Grant (founder of Caribbean Food Emporium)
wins Special Inspiration Award at Windrush Achievements Award 2002.The
Dorchester offers Caribbean Menu at
awards ceremony.Comments and requests received from Poland
October 2002 Attended Food for thought - Food for the mind event at Ocean, Hackney. In memory of Val McCalla - founder of the Voice Newspaper.Publicity sent out for Caribbean Food Conference.Meeting held with Orlando SatchellBBC TV contacts Caribbean Food Emporium again regarding the ongoing search for a 3-generational Caribbean Family to be recorded having a typical Sunday lunch.Optomem TV Company contacts Caribbean Food Emporium, regarding the search for a Caribbean Family to film having dinner at Christmas. Optimum are makers of the Channel 4 programmes such as The Naked Chef and 2 Fat Ladies.The Caribbean Food Emporium website tops half a million hits since its launch.Monthly hits for the website now nears 150,000.September 2002 Attended "Heritate Chef"- Caribbean Food Demonstration and Taster at Redbridge Museum, ILFORD, Essex
News Update 1 July 2002 Comments
and requests received from PortugalComments and enquiries received
from the NetherlandsSite promoted internationally to non-English
speaking countries. Internet users searching on German search engines,
French search engines, Hispanic, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or
Chinese search engines will find this website when searching in
their own language.Denver Post (An American Newspaper) requests
interview regarding Caribbean Food.BBC Radio Essex interviews Caribbean
Food Emporium. The feature will form part of BBC Essex's Mega Mela
- a promotion and celebration of the cultural diversity present
in Essex. Questions will include: why the business was established
and the importance of the Caribbean culture in Essex. Recording
to take place 22 July. Mega Mela will be aired during August. Caribbean
Food Emporium is invited to send young demonstrators of Jamaican
Food to appear on the TV programme - XChange, by CBBC. Programme
to be aired August 6th
August 2002 The Voice Newspaper contacts Caribbean Food Emporium regarding survey stating that Caribbeans prefer fast foods to Caribbean Food.Caribbean Food Emporium website now nears 100,000 hits per month.New Nation contacts Caribbean Food Emporium regarding survey stating that Caribbean youths prefer fast foods to Caribbean Food.BBC Radio Essex airs interview with D. Grant about Caribbean Food EmporiumD. Grant gives Live Interview with Herdle White of BBC Radio West Midlands, Saturday 17 August, about Caribbean Food.Discussion held at Black Business meeting about the lack of widespread availability of Caribbean Food. Franchises discussed. Patrick Williams - Caribbean Chef demonstrates Jamaican food on CBBC TV in celebration of the fortieth year of Jamaican Independence.BBC Website has links to Caribbean Food Emporium website.The Evening Standard - "This is London" website contact Caribbean Food Emporium about using some of the recipes, and placing a link from their site to this site. The link is in the section about the Notting Hill Carnival. BBC Radio London contacts Caribbean Food Emporium about statistics regarding 34% of black women being obese. The question is - Is diet a factor?
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