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Get ready for the biggest African and Caribbean food tasting festival!
Some of London’s best African and Caribbean chefs and cooks are coming together to take part in the first annual African and Caribbean food tasting event this summer. The free festival will play host to over 14 national cuisines from around Africa and the Caribbean including Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana and Barbados.
Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe.
Ranging from reggae to dub to salsa, soca floats, steel bands, uplifting beats. Every year the streets of West London come alive, with the sounds and smells of Europe’s biggest street festival.
Supporting an African nation in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil here is our country, restaurant and bar guide. Here we are also talking about national dishes, cooking and drinking if you are having a party at home whilst watching the football games. Tweet #foodball. So which African Nations are going to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil? Five African nations have qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil they are listed:
The Great British Bake Off, Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef: The Professionals, your favourite TV programmes live on stage and along side these brands is the taste of African cuisine.
The BBC Good Food Show London is taking place at Olympia’s Grand Hall in London on the 9-11 November 2012. Good luck to Bim's Kitchen exhibiting on stand PB6.
It's the perfect place to go and find something different that you can't find on the high street and sample these dishes.
This is big serious business, featuring top class acts, a host of celebrities, sports personalities and acclaimed chefs. Now in it's 4th year, will you be at The World Food Awards.
If you love West African cooking, work in West African food retail or an African restaurant you need to put this in your diary. It is at the Lancaster, London, UK on Friday 2nd November 2012.
In another universe out there David Cameron and Barack Obama hosted a West African cook in place of the stale old English sausage and burger barbecue for US and British veterans in the Rose Garden in Downing Street, London.
The feast included real West African food, chicken jollof rice, okra, plaintain and egusi spinach. The British and American veterans and members of the armed forces loved it. "Who needs an British bbq when you can have cassava leaves and beans akra" said one Scottish sailor.
