{"id":14124,"date":"2017-08-21T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:55:13","slug":"the-big-caribbean-cookout-is-arriving-soon-at-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/the-big-caribbean-cookout-is-arriving-soon-at-leicester","title":{"rendered":"The Big Caribbean Cookout is arriving soon at Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Big Caribbean Cookot, a free event, will be hosted Leicester&#8217;s Market Square on 28<sup>th<\/sup> August (Monday). The interesting food festival happening this August Bank Holiday offers culinary delights, children&#8217;s rides, live music and entertainment. The event is Caribbean, offering music like Reggae, Soca, Ska and Calipso, played by live bands and DJs. It also provides a learning platform and employment for young people, who will be operating stalls with their products or working alongside quality chefs. Archie&#8217;s Ol&#8217; Rum Shack will serve drinks. Plukd will offer prizes for the Wing Sing Challenge.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The Leicester-based The community Giants, a social enterprise, is behind the event, teaming up with entertainers, DJs and established chefs to bring a taste of the Caribbean. They are dedicated to help young adults economically and socially disadvantaged, to train them and for their self-employment. MD of the social enterprise, John Palmer, said they were happy to implement monthly youth markets and now with regular themed events are taking a step further to benefit the young people with opportunities and also the larger community. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink\/caribbean-food-festival-coming-leicester-344629\">free event<\/a> and such events, will really help many struggling young people they hope, with local businesses supporting it. The Big Caribbean Cookout will offer something for everyone, providing gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options, starting at 11am, in the Jubilee Square, on this summer Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Caribbean Cookot, a free event, will be hosted Leicester&#8217;s Market Square on 28th August (Monday). The interesting food festival happening this August Bank Holiday offers culinary delights, children&#8217;s rides, live music and entertainment. The event is Caribbean, offering music like Reggae, Soca, Ska and Calipso, played by live bands and DJs. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}