Eagle Beach – Pepia Est, a local purveyor and Mount Gay Rum distilleries from Barbados hosted a number of cooking and tasting seminars at Matthews’s Beach Bar & Grill at Casa Del Mar Beach Resort starring Chef Paul Yellin, Mount Gay Rum’s in-house chef, flown in on the occasion from Barbados, the home of Mount Gay Rum.
Chester Brown, Mount Gay Rum’s drink ambassador was on hand to create the best suited cocktails to match the food, making the lunch-time experience a truly unforgettable one.
Seven different preparations of food all infused with Mount Gay Rum were prepared and tasted by local celebrity chefs, from Matilde Restaurant, and the Screaming Eagle, among other famed eateries.
The cooking seminar unfolded under the watchful eye’s of Pepia Est owner Michael v/d Berg and wine & spirit connoisseur Pascal Turpyn, in collaboration with the staff and management of Matthew’s Bar & Grill.
The lovely menu – with rum as the secret ingredient - included an outstanding Banana stuffed jerk chicken w/a coconut curry sauce, roasted plantain crusted best end of lamb w/ a molasses reduction drizzle, vegetable spring rolls with tomato-mint salsa, and rich Mount Gay Barbados XO bread pudding.
The seminar concluded with recipes to go, and embroidered Mount Gay Rum aprons for the participants. MGHR belongs to the powerful portfolio of Remy Martin.
Pictured here, a life-loving crowd at the tasting at Matthew’s Beach Bar & Grill.
