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World Food Market goes crazy for Caribbean

World Food Market brings together specialist manufacturers and suppliers from across the globe together with a powerful audience of high quality buyers; from independent and multiple retailers, the profit and cost foodservice sectors, as well as wholesalers and importers and major players from the distribution channel.

Do you want to learn more about Caribbean cuisine? Then make sure you visit this year's World Food Market taking place at London's ExCel from 29th-30th November. Not only will you be able to taste, touch and smell all the latest products to be made available, but you can also learn from a wide range of leading industry figures at the prestigious Caribbean Food and Drink Conference.

Organised by Caribbean Food Emporium, the one day conference will take place on Wednesday 29th November and will deliver thousands of pounds worth of free educational content as it discusses issues as diverse as Caribbean culinary skills, new food and drink products, contract catering to environmental awareness investment opportunities.

After a welcome address from Phillip Allen, director of Entrepreneur's Academy, Ron Shillingford, editor of Caribbean Times Newspaper, will give an overview of the Caribbean food and drink industry, a market currently worth £800 million and growing by 5% a year.

Keynote speaker Floella Benjamin OBE, highly regarded in the industry as championing Caribbean cuisine, will be looking at the future of the market and opportunities for growth. Earlier this year, Floella launched her own range of Caribbean cuisine in which she recreated her favourite recipes such as curry chicken with rice and peas roti, and curry and escovitch fish. Her next step is to offer children's meals, soups, fruit drinks and fruit cake.

Caribbean chef of the year 2005 Collin Brown will take the audience on a voyage of discovery as he showcases new cooking methods for a range of renowned dishes via video link. Currently contracted to Glistening Waters in Brentford, his dishes range from traditional to modern and although Caribbean food is popular, he believes it is yet to be fully incorporated in to mainstream menus.

The conference will culminate in the unveiling of the prestigious Caribbean Food and Drink Awards, where the best the industry has to offer will be rewarded and recognised, including best Caribbean take-away, best Caribbean Bakery, best Caribbean chef, best Caribbean caterer and best Caribbean supplier.

Dawn Grant, Director of Caribbean Food Emporium, comments: "Caribbean Food is unique, it tastes great, it's full of flavour and World Food Market is a great platform to showcase this fantastic cuisine. Although it's still not as widely consumed as Indian Chinese and Thai,, it's definitely coming into it's own and becoming a force to be reckoned with. There are now 1500 food and drink businesses in the UK offering authentic Caribbean items. This includes restaurants, take aways, caterers, manufacturers, importers, and suppliers. There are many thousands of ethnic food shops retailing Caribbean Food products, in addition to the increasing demand from the major multiples where supermarkets, have a strong ethnic food section.

So whether you want help in getting a business off the ground, inspiration to spice up your menu or to source authentic Caribbean produce, a visit to World Food Market is a must. For a full conference programme visit.

World Food Market Press Release

November 2006

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