well the South Beach Wine & Food
Festival wrapping up this weekend but
there's still plenty of time to enjoy
the sights the sounds and the bites
nikki joins us now with chef
Winfred Patrick Simpson and he's here to
tell us about the event yeah last night
taste of Jamaica for the first time sold
out it was sold out it was so much fun
so much DJ I really I really didn't
think he was on the floor break bad so
that one anyway it's kind of weird the
standard I think yeah weird
the National the National nice night the
background was so nice Chef Patrick is
from are originally from say Dan's
Jamaica yes I was born in Clarendon but
I grew up innocent and I know I live in
New York and yeah the big lights bright
lights me and you were here for like ten
years of the cruise ships yes yes I used
to live here in Hollywood when I used to
work on Royal cavern alright would you
bring us to eat that's what we want to
know ok so last night we had so much
great stuff going on last night we had
Walker's wood was there and we had a
jerk oxtail nice jerk oxtail that is
served over five cheese macaroni and
cheese it was off the chain my line was
just non-stop my line was just so busy
so we had the oxtail over the macaroni
and cheese well so I have some different
vendor had a taste of Jamaica which we
had a curry shrimp we also have the jerk
chicken that was there mmm escovitch
fish was there we also have the Jamaican
food cake and cornmeal pudding oh I know
my Florida brought this and inside the
cornmeal cornmeal pudding is the stuff
what do you think it says the taste of
Jamaica then you guys are at the South
Beach Wine & Food Festival that's a
pretty prestigious it is it is and for
it to be sold out and so much people
when the gate open and I saw the line
yeah I was sweating I was like is this
line ever gonna stop and you work now in
New York City you are you came for that
High Line yes yes so Nihal yes Tony Hall
we have multiple venues in New York the
Sony Hall the Highline Ballroom the BB
King I'm the corporate executive chef
here so I oversee a whole lot and a lot
of guys inside my kitchen plus I cater
for some of the top celebrity in Jamaica
in in in Jamaica and also in New York
I'm
your personal chef whenever they have an
advantage so and you also have a
culinary school in Jamaica nowadays yes
I'm presently in the process of opening
a culinary school in Ocho Rios it's my
way of giving back paying it forward you
know Alport my community and just help
guys and show them different ways of how
food you know food is about love yes you
know you share the love and the talent
to be able to share your culturally and
it's and to share your culture and you
know for a guy like me who's coming from
homeless coming from poverty coming from
not coming home to where food is
accessible for me to be able to create
and give back and open doors of
opportunity congratulations and we're so
blessed to have you here
you know she taught us a little bit of
Chef envy right now because he is the
chef of the local ten and from the you
know from jerk festival you use one of
three times he be Minister of Tourism
and I got to make it next year make sure
you there continues today I just go to
our website we have a link to it Brandon
they do have some good weather get today
a little bit of rain but it should clear
up this is just fine I think just a
couple of showers hanging around at
times but it's gonna be a lot more dry
than wet a lot of people getting a nice
start to their beach day out there in
Hollywood aren't they a few clouds
building in the background otherwise we
are already into the 80s 81 in Fort
Lauderdale 80 in Miami even warmer than
that down in Key West barely made it
into the 70s down there last night
so 82 degrees down at the beaches at
least a very high UV index but there is
also a high rip current risk you'll see
the red flags flying down there at the
beaches water temperature is actually
not too bad it's into the upper 70s
right around 79 close to 80 degrees so
we have a couple of showers showing up
on radar I'll start with the area that's
been getting it for the past couple of
hours and that's around Key West hour
Key Largo I should say moving in off the
Atlantic at times Key West you're dry
for now but there's a couple of light
showers not too far away this is up off
the coast of my n
here's Fort Lauderdale you can see a
couple of these showers getting awfully
close