Craig and. Shaun McAnnuff, born in the UK, have created some wonderful recipes. They are quick and easy plant-based Caribbean recipes to cook. They are available from their bestselling book* Original Flava: Caribbean Recipes from Home*, published in 2019. During 2024 they went on a tour of the UK with their viral Caribbean Supperclub visiting Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham. The brothers are all about maximum flava and their recipes that are filling and flava-ful just happen to be vegan too! Think potato and chickpea curry with roti, Jerk cauliflower wings, Coconut , black-eyed pea and sweet potato stew and Plantain cookies. Their brilliant vegan dishes rely on fresh and vibrant fruit and vegetables from plantain to pineapple. They have built up online a Caribbean food festival of virtual cooking classes in partnership with Jamie Oliver. Sources Wikipedia Superheroes by Sophia Thakur

Omari began to cook at the age of 7 when his mother became ill. His father taught him and his brother how to cook. Since then he has gained a big online following while creating his own line of dips, snacks and juice packs called Dipalicious aged 8. . Aged just 12 he became the youngest TV chef. According to his instagram he is the youngest vegan chef and restaurateur in the world. He is also said to be Britain’s youngest award-winning chef and author. He has published his own cookbook Omar McQueen’s Best Bites In 2020 he starred in a CBBC show called What’s Cooking Omari? In 2023 he starred in Meet the McQueens on CBBC which included his family. (Read his comments.) His mother became ill with an extreme form of migraine known as hemiplegic migraine. Sources Wikipedia Superheroes by Sophia Thakur

Saint Anne according to apocrypha, as well a according to Christian and Islamic tradition, was the mother of Mary. the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary’s mother is not mentioned by name in the N.T.gospels. of the Bible. Anne and her husband Joachim are only mentioned by name in the New Testament apocrypha in the Gospel of James. sources Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Saints Howard Loxton

Saint Eloi or Eliguis, the Limousin goldsmith, was called to Paris to make a throne for Clotaire 1. He managed to make 2 from the metal allotted, earning the friendship of the king and more commissions, eventually becoming master of the Paris mint. His wealth enabled him to ransom slaves, build churches and monasteries and support the poor. He legislated for slaves to rest on holy days. A counsellor and diplomat at the court of Draobert, the son of Clotaire1, he was later ordained bishop of Noyon and Tournai in 641/2. According to legend he was forced to cut off the leg of a troublesome horse in order to shoe it but later restored it! Patron saint of goldsmiths, blacksmiths and farriers. Sources Wikipedia Saints Over 150 Patron saints for Today edited by Elizabeth Hallam

Bruno of Cologne, venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians - a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic church. It was founded by Bruno in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. Their motto in English means The cross is steady while the world turns. I have included notes about both Bruno and the Carthusians (Wikipedia). His disciples praised his three chief virtues - his great spirit of prayer, extreme mortification and devotion to th e blessed virgin. He has long been regarded and as the patron saint of Calabria and one of the patron saints of Germany. Saint Bruno obviously lived a very active Christian llfe in the eleventh century AD