Heroes BELIZEAN
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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by:Keisha Miligan
THE FOOD SPECIALIST TWINS HAIR SALON Belize City, Tues.Dec.8, 2009
Belize City, Mon. Nov. 30, 2009
He cooks very well and his conch fritters are one of the very best here in the city. I am telling you about Gareth Price who cooks food everyday from Monday to Friday and makes his conch fritters in the evening time to sell. He sells from the downstairs of his home, at #3598 Central American Boulevard. When I visited with Gareth, he was busy stirring his rice and beans and white rice. Stewing down his chicken and frying his fish. He had all his items pre-prep, to make his work easier when the time came to prepare his conch fritters. He gets up every morning around 7:00 and start doing his thing. He would get through by 11:30, when he would take the food downstairs and set them up. He has seating arrangements for people who want to sit and eat. Around two he would be through with selling food and go back upstairs and start making his conch fritters. Some days he would have shrimp or lobster, not only the conch. The fritters sell for $0.75, but the shrimp and lobster ones cost twenty five cents more. When we asked him how long he has been making fritters, he said for over 15 years. He learnt and got the cooking skills from his grandmother who cooked on fiyah haat. He use to practice cooking small things first,
Belize City, Tues. Dec., 8, 2009 You can tell that she loves cooking and music from the way she moves to the beat of a favorite song, sung by a Belizean Mr. Program, called, “See I Rise”. The lady I am telling you about is Therese “Golda” Johnson. You see her in the kitchen smiling, singing and cooking. Those are her delights and where she is her heart is content. She loves cooking and just before that song came out, Therese decided to start making
such as frying eggs, before he began practicing on bigger food items. He practiced on the fritters until he was given enough comments on them and told that he would be able to make it in business. He started out by riding on a bicycle and selling his fritters. He stopped for a short time when he went to the cayes to work, but restarted when he returned to the city. He rode around on his bicycle then, but later after knowing that he had become established and known, he knew that he could make it by selling from one venue. Later he decided to sell the food, as he had nothing really to do throughout the day after preparing everything the prior night for the fritters. The time that he gets downstairs to sell his fritters is usually around 3:00 and he would be there until around 6:00 when the fritters would normally be sold out. There are two reasons why he decided to open his own business. One is because he always needed extra cash and two is because he had grown out of his job and they could no longer afford to pay him. The secret to having a great business is the taste of your food. He ensures that the food and his fritters are done to his best ability. If ever you want to ensure that when you arrive you can get your food or that tasty conch fritters, you can call Gareth at 666-7275.
Anna Reyes always loved doing hair and after she took up a course at Alma’s Beauty Training School, she furthered her studies abroad and has returned and started her very own salon in the heart of the city. I visited and spoke with Anna at her place of business, “Twin Image Hair Salon”, located at #18 Bishop Street. She believed that she could do anything that she put her mind to and plunged on towards her dreams of being a hairdresser. She learnt a lot from the course at Alma’s and received a certificate there for her training and her accomplishments. She knew that would allow her to be recognized, but there was more she wanted to learn about dealing with and attending to hair. She took a trip to Richmond,Virginia, where she attended a school there and specialized in dealing with Afro American hair as well as others. There on the wall of the salon where she studied there was a picture of a black and white woman
facing each other, hence he reason the name Twin Image was derived at for the name of the salon. She loved it so much she decided to use it as the name for her shop here. This marks a little over four months that she has opened the doors of her shop. She loves it. She specializes in everything for hair. She does treatments, colors, highlights, cut, relax, flat-iron and wax. She deals with both men and women. She waxes the eyebrows for only $5. When it comes to the price for hair, she charges according to the length of the hair and what they want done to it. She is opened from Mondays to Saturdays and closed on Sundays. Even though she works on an appointment basis, she also deals with walk-ins. Her opening hours are from 9:00-7:00. Anna encourages all Belizean who want that special, unique look to visit her salon. You will be satisfied!
GOLDA’S TASTY PASTRIES pastries for a living to support herself and her four sons, being a single mother. Sure enough, when I visited with Therese, she was singing in her kitchen and cooking. She told us a little more about her small business and what motivated her to start doing it. She makes most pastries you can think of- lemon pies, coconut tarts, powder buns and milk cake.
Eventually she will make others, but for no she is settled on these ones mentioned. She would bake early mornings and evening and have a young man ride around on bicycle and sell them for hr. sometimes she would get out there herself, when he is busy and sell her own pastries. It is not a big salary said Therese, but she thanks God that it allows her to provide the basic needs for her children. As she pre-preps like many other business owners, she
would get up at 7:00 in the morning times and begin making the pastries. They are tasty and melts in your mouth, way pastries are supposed to. She sells her pastries very reasonable. The jam rolls cost $1, $2 for the lemon pie and $2 for the milk cake. The powder buns are 2 for a $1. Even though she works on a small scale, she is willing to cater for small functions and can be reached at 207-2016.