Wendy Taylor is Calabar Magazine's food editor. Originally from England, she came to New York to enroll in the Food Studies master's program at NYU. She is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy and lives in Prospect Heights. She can be reached at food@calabarmag.com

Start with a bowlful of imagination, add a generous dash of flair and a heady mix of seasonings, and for one afternoon a chic corner of Brooklyn became a Caribbean kitchen.

It was "Iron Chef," Island style, as six young aspiring chefs from New York culinary schools competed for the grand prize –an internship at Walkerswood Caribbean Foods.

Winner Sharada Winston, of Carroll Gardens with Virginia Burke, Walkerswood marketing director. Photo credit: Walkerswood Caribbean Foods

Each contestant submitted an original recipe for a Caribbean –style entrée using Walkerswood products. The winner, Sharada Winston, of Carroll Gardens, took the prize with her Escoveitch Jumbo Shrimp, using the Escoveitch Pickle sauce. This recipe can be found here.

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