Jammin'

What links The Jamaican High Commissioner, three of TV's 'Dragons' and the inventor of Reggae, Reggae Sauce?

Well, a fascinating new BBC TV series, Caribbean Food Made Easy, features the West Indian cooking skills of chef, musician and entrepreneur, Levi Roots. The extraordinary and highly entertaining Mr Roots' early career earned him the accolade Best Reggae Singer at the 1998 Mobo awards. Currently. however, he is probably best known for the creation of his culinary masterpiece, Reggae, Reggae Sauce.

The product, which is now widely available on supermarket shelves, was developed with the help of sponsorship to the tune of £50,000 from Peter Jones on the popular Dragons' Den TV show. Now, please stay with me on this one; no less than three of Mr Jones' fellow dragons James Cann, Theo Paphitis and Duncan Bannatyne were more than happy to be featured in the Regtransfers.co.uk magazine The World of Personal Numbers Plates granting excusive interviews concerning their careers and their highly individual choices of personal number plates 28 JC, T1 HEO and 23 D, respectively.

So, where does the High Commissioner come into all this? Well, in the first of Levi's excellent cooking extravaganzas aired last night, he was asked to prepare a meal at the Jamaican Embassy in London for The Hon. Burchell Whiteman, OJ and his guests, including, EastEnders' Rudolph Walker OBE, at the Jamaican Embassy in London. It turns out that Burchell was Levi's next door neighbour back in the Jamaican parish of Clarendon before both men achieved their personal successes via very diverse routes.

Clearly seen on the Commissioner's chauffeur driven limo, as he arrived at the function, was the splendidly appropriate number plate 1 JAM. A real Reggae, Reggae number.

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