Orlando McDonald (Xaymaca)

Xaymaca is a forward thinking restaurant in the city centre of Birmingham.   It is owned by Orlando McDonald and Beverley McMann.     They are actively involved in promoting Caribbean Food.    Beverley is a lecturer at the Birmingham College of Food.   She is helping to develop an NVQ course in Caribbean Cuisine.

Xaymaca

34 Bristol Street

Birmingham

B5 7AA

Tel. 0121 622 3332

Website   www.xaymaca.co.uk

BIS Publications (Publishers)

For those planning to write books about food,  or any aspect of black history, or black life, 

BIS might be the people you need to talk to.

BIS Publications UK

PO Box 14918

London

N17 8WJ

Website: www.bispublications.com

Tel 0208 365 9515

Karlene Richards (Author)

Author of book – “African Caribbean Foods from A to Z.”

The book contains a series of illustrations of Caribbean fruits and vegetables which are available in the UK.    It has nutritional information and recipes.

ISBN: 1-903289-01-7

For more information visit BIS website or  email -

info@bispublications.com

Richard Simpson (Cummin Up Chain)

Entrepreneur with a chain of Take Aways and Restaurants.    Richard is a person who is making things happen.  He is planning to set up a number of franchises around the country.

Peter Richards (Westminster College)

Lecturer at Westminster College of Food   The man who taught Jamie Oliver.   He is featured in the current series on Channel 4 (Tuesdays 9pm) about Jamie Oliver’s project to train unemployed disaffected young people to become master chefs.    Peter also helped to manage and organise the Caribbean Master chef competition, which is hosted at Westminster college.

Dianne Edwards-Gleede

Trade Commissioner for Jamaicans in London

Dianne promotes trade links between Jamaican companies and UK companies.

Jamaica Trade Commission

Jamaica’s Investment & Export Promotion Agency

1 Prince Consort Road

London

SW7 2BZ

Tel 020 7584 8894

Fax 020 7823 9886