3,000-mile takeaway

Wednesday 11th April 2007, 12:00AM BST.

A MEAL prepared in Jersey this week is due to be eaten by Bangladesh’s World Cup cricketers in Barbados at the weekend.

Bangladesh pulled off one of the shocks of the tournament last week in defeating South Africa in the Super 8 stage. Today they play England. Sultan Al Mahmood, who is the head chef and owner of Mahmood’s Tandoori Night restaurant, is taking on the challenge of pre-paring an authentic Bangladeshi meal and travelling with it to the West Indies to serve it at a party on Saturday night. No stranger to these requests, Mr Mahmood, voted international Indian chef of the year in 1998, has prepared meals on previous occasions which were flown to Canada and The Gambia and a number of dishes which were served in the House of Commons.

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