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UWI students to promote rabbit cooking and eating

For Release Upon Receipt - March 12, 2010

St. Augustine


Chicken prices have reportedly dropped for the Lenten season, but The University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine Campus is proposing an alternative source of meat for the long term. An upcoming food tasting at the Department of Food Production will give students an opportunity to learn more about cooking, eating and serving rabbit meat.

UWI Food Production Lecturer, Dr Rajendra Rastogi, said that the food tasting was organised specifically “to teach students of the Non-ruminant Production class (AGLS 3014) to cook and eat rabbit meat, in order to remove any prejudice.” The Non-ruminant Production class will be divided into five groups, each of which will prepare a rabbit dish for display and consumption. Prizes will be awarded to winning presentations. 

The food tasting, which will take place in the Food Lab on the first floor of the Sir Frank Stockdale Building on Thursday 25th March from 1 to 3 p.m., is open only to a few members of staff and selected media personnel.

Professor Dyer Narinesingh, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, and Dr Laura Roberts-Nkrumah, Head of the UWI Department of Food Production, will address participants at the cook-off. The Deputy Director of Regional Administration (South), Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, is expected to attend.

For more information, please contact Dr Rajendra Rastogi at Ralendra.Rastogi@sta.uwi.edu, or (868) 662 2002 Ext. 3329 or 645 0479 (Fax).

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

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