About Nanny Brown’s

Working the land wasn’t always easy, but every day, Sharon’s grandmother would build an open fire to cook home grown foods which she wrapped in banana leaves.

Using their own meat and fresh fish, Caribbean fruits and vegetables, and of course all the essential Jamaican spices to make every dish delicious, her grandmother was the amazing lady who put a lot of love into everything she cooked and ultimately inspired Sharon’s love of cooking.

When Sharon was 6 years old, her family moved to England, where they happily settled in Shropshire. Sharon never forgot her informative years and eagerly looked forward to returning to her birthplace.

Living in England, Sharon would observe as her mother cook the same authentic Jamaican dishes that her grandmother had made. By the time she was 11, Sharon was allowed to help prepare the spiced marinade for the Sunday dinner meat or fish. Left overnight to absorb the flavours of the marinade before being cooked, mixing the spices was an important job to be given, and one that Sharon felt privileged to have been given. Her mother was her greatest critique, and Sharon wanted to learn it all, shadowing her mother in everything she did in the kitchen.

Passing down from generation to generation, the Dutch pot was used daily. This heavy, flat based cooking vessel made from cast iron or aluminium was the carrier for most dishes. Lovingly named ‘Dutchie’, Sharon always uses this pot to cook Nanny Brown’s infamous ‘Curry Goat’ along with many other dishes each and every time!

‘Dutchie’, the Dutch pot never lets Sharon down, and each time it’s used, Sharon is transported back to the memory of growing up in Jamaica.

"My culinary roots trace back to my grandmother Miriam, the original Nanny Brown in Jamaica, and then Catherine, my mother who herself was a nanny to 16 grandchildren, and who taught me how to put flavours together, revealing many of the generational Jamaican staple secrets to me. Inspired by their passion of cooking, I developed a profound love for cooking, finding it both therapeutic and immensely satisfying to recreate mouthwatering dishes.

Over the years, I've incorporated both my mother’s and grandmother’s traditional recipes with my own innovations, resulting in a unique fusion cuisine which fills me with pride.

Driven by the belief of what I was creating, I turned my passion into a business, catering for various events including birthday parties, weddings, funerals, private dining experiences and casual gatherings, honoring my mother and grandmother by not only fulfilling my dream but also by remembering them in all my cooking, using the same flavours and techniques that I learned and grew up with."