Windrush Anniversary: The culinary cultural impact of the Windrush generation — Transcript

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1. 0:00yums mangoes and sweet potatoes foreign
2. 0:04foods that we take for granted but this
3. 0:06wouldn't have been the case 75 years ago
4. 0:09when people like Colin's dad were just
5. 0:12starting to arrive
6. 0:13you realize that we couldn't get our own
7. 0:17produce and all that was available was
8. 0:19short short grain rice and it wasn't
9. 0:23very nice
10. 0:24using Connections in Jamaica and money
11. 0:27saved up from working in Nottingham coal
12. 0:29mines in 1955 his dad became one of the
13. 0:33first to open up a Caribbean food shop
14. 0:35in the Midlands challenges would have
15. 0:38been transportation is spent many hours
16. 0:41on the on the road actually trying to
17. 0:43get the things back to the back to
18. 0:46Nottingham trying to get through with
19. 0:48the banks that actually get financed and
20. 0:51so forth to get started that was not
21. 0:53very easy
22. 0:54tough but necessary and now the industry
23. 0:58is worth millions but the cultural value
24. 1:00priceless
25. 1:02I think that if it wasn't for the
26. 1:04Caribbean Supermarket the market in
27. 1:06general or the one or two storeholders
28. 1:08that sold planting yam and so on we
29. 1:11wouldn't be able to stay connected to
30. 1:13our culture and me as a second
31. 1:14generation again wouldn't know so much
32. 1:16of where I'm from
33. 1:18for the Windrush generation accessing
34. 1:21Caribbean produce wasn't just about
35. 1:22having a taste of home it was about
36. 1:25preserving a culture
37. 1:27which eventually influenced Britain's
38. 1:30Wilfred is one of the UK's Only
39. 1:33commercial black Farmers famous for
40. 1:35producing British sausages with a
41. 1:38Caribbean twist
42. 1:39everybody loves the sausage he's also a
43. 1:42child of the Windrush generation I think
44. 1:45it's very very important especially on
45. 1:48something like and the 75th anniversary
46. 1:50of winrush day to remind people that it
47. 1:54was a very brave entrepreneurial thing
48. 1:57to do and I'm so grateful that my
49. 2:00parents had that entrepreneurial Gene in
50. 2:03them otherwise I wouldn't be standing in
51. 2:05front of you today
52. 2:07Shimon Freeman Powell Sky News