Viva Brighton Issue #56 October 2017

MY SPACE
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Eshé’s Kitchen
‘This mad idea’ becomes a reality
Eshé Brown is about to embark on a new adventure.
In December 2015, the Brighton food
writer’s ‘dream ball’ came up and now her dream of
owning her own kitchen on wheels has become a
reality. Eshé explains: “The idea for Eshé’s Kitchen
came up when I was working at [local SEO & marketing
agency] Propellernet. They have this amazing
scheme called The Dream Ball initiative: in
the foyer of their office, there’s a vintage gumball
machine and each of the balls within it contains the
name of an employee, and more importantly, their
dream. When the company reaches a business target,
a ball is released, and the person whose name
is pulled out is supported to fulfil their dream. Back
in 2015 at our Christmas party, mine was the lucky
name pulled from it.
“Initially I dreamt of doing a food tour of India. It
would have been a great experience and I would
have made a lot of memories, but it would have
been short-lived. So my boyfriend and I put our
heads together and tried to think of an idea that
would be more of a stretch for me. We came up
with this mad idea of building a mobile kitchen
and taking it around Europe, to cook with other
people that also love food. It started off as a small
idea: we were going to buy a trailer and have a sort
of outdoor barbecue in it. But when I got talking
to people about it, we realised it wouldn’t be much
fun if it rained, so it turned out that the best idea
would be to renovate a caravan.
“The caravan we bought is a 1968 Sprite Alpine,
and I’ve named her Meredith, after an extremely
resilient character in Grey’s Anatomy. We found her
in Leeds, which is about a seven-hour drive away
from here. We’ve been working with The English
Caravan Company and Melanie Sramek-Bennett,
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