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Southsayer: James Brown, executive chef at Clapham’s Jam Tree restaurant

My worst south London memory? Having to go to school in the aftermath of the Brixton riots in 1985 Old-school south Londoner James Browne was born at Lambeth Hospital in 1973 and grew up in Clapham and Brixton, where he developed a love for food – especially Caribbean. He trained with Michel Roux Jnr, before …

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Recipe: Jamaican Braised Oxtail and Butterbeans, by the Jam Tree’s James Browne

Brixton-born James Browne is executive chef at The Jam Tree restaurant in Clapham. Next month, his restaurant is hosting Jamaica Jamaica – a fortnight of food themed around the Caribbean island’s cuisine and inspired by Browne’s travels there (and, no doubt, the plentiful places to eat Jamaican in Brixton – from Jeff the Chef’s market van …

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