12th Annual Caribbean Cuisine Week (CCW) Will Be Held April 13 -15, 2016

Caribbean and Latin-inspired dishes and drinks await diners at many of Philadelphia’s top restaurants during the 12th Annual Caribbean Cuisine Week (CCW), to be held April 13-15, 2016. 

CCW partners with top chefs throughout Center City and Greater Philadelphia who create special dishes to help bring over 700 economically disadvantaged Caribbean high school athletes here to compete in the Penn Relays.

The Penn Relays is the largest track and field event in the United States, drawing over 115,000 people to Philadelphia each Spring. CCW assists student-athletes from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Bahamas, with ground transportation, three hot meals a day, emergency medical, and other hospitality services. Many of these students aspire to be like the famed Jamaican Olympian Usain Bolt — “the fastest man in the world” — who benefited from CCW while…