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Theresa Roberts is the founder and restauranteur of the Jamaica Patty Company in Covent Garden, London.

Ingredients for today’s show include a pinch of food history with how the Jamaican Patty relates to the English Cornish Pasty. Foods that you need to try, and the challenges in opening a restaurant.

#JPC will be promoting #Jamaican Patties to the UK on #BBC2 Sunday 10th May at 10pm. @jamaicapattyco

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Podcast Ingredients

• An introduction to Theresa Roberts.
• Theresa shares the history of her love for the Jamaican Patty.
• We learn how a Jamaican patty relates to the English Cornish Pasty.
• What is Ackee?
• Why it is important to Theresa to be the face of her company.
• Is it important to keep ingredients traditional.
• We discuss staffing trouble.
• The trouble with finding food locally that is similar to abroad.
• The difficulty with finding foreign ingredients locally.
• Theresa shares her love for Juici Patties.
• Patties with or without coco bread?
• What food you need to try.
• Challenges in opening a restaurant in London,
• The trouble with landlords.
• Future plans for the Jamaican Patty co.
• We talk about fish.
• How the Jamaica Patty Co keep their pasty flaky

Related Links

• @theresa.roberts19
• @jamaicapattyco
• jamaicapatty.co.uk

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