Riaz Phillips: West Winds

<p>This week, Gilly digs deep into the roots of Jamaican food culture with <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2264465/riaz-phillips/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Riaz Phillips</a>, winner of this year's <a href="https://janegrigsontrust.org.uk/the-award/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jane Grigson Trust Award </a>for <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Riaz-Phillips/West-Winds--Recipes-History-and-Tales-from-Jamaica/26555091" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>West Winds, recipes, history and tales from Jamaica</em></a><em>.</em></p><br><p>Riaz was a <a href="https://the-ybfs.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Young British Foodie</a> award winner in 2017 for his self-published book <a href="https://www.antennebooks.com/product/belly-full-carribbean-food-in-the-uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Belly Full,</em></a> a guide and history of the Caribbean eateries which have&nbsp;shaped the landscape of food in the UK since the Fifties.&nbsp;By&nbsp;2018 he was on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/foodmonthly" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Observer&nbsp;Food&nbsp;Monthly's</a> annual list '50 Things we Love'. Since then, he's become the<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/foodanddrink/riaz-phillips-on-documenting-the-caribbean-food-scene-in-the-uk-a3659906.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> cultural commentator</a> on the role of Jamaican food in modern British culture while thinking deeply about his own place within it.</p><br><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>