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Guyana products did well at Italian fair
Dear Editor,
Today I read in a Guyana newspaper about the success of some of our products at a recent fair in Italy and thought “Has our prize-winning rum been overlooked”? Recently, I let an Irish driver have half a bottle of a Demerara 5-year old, left over from my visit to GT roughly 3 years ago.
He shared it with his friends, none of whom had heard of it before, but thoroughly enjoyed it. I then mentioned that our rum had won world prizes in every category year after year.
I remembered a similar incident a few years ago, in St. Lucia, I think, when I mentioned that the product molasses the tour guide kept passing around, referring to as “the best”, as coming from Guyana. I then mentioned that Guyana was the country of my birth, and molasses was available in the UK and known as treacle.
It was sold in most supermarkets, and I used it in my Christmas cake, to darken and flavour the cake. The Brits had never seen or heard of ‘molasses’. Now almost every cake-making TV programme is using it big-time. Perhaps, in time. Demerara rum will be on shelves in shops throughout Europe?
Geralda Dennison
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