I never did get to meet my all time food hero FLOYDY so sad when he passed . He was my inspiration in the eighties he was a big part of why I travel, cook, why I opened a restaurant and why to this day I remain a hard core food obsessive and importer of global ingredients. Many of my customers still come in clutching stained copies of far flung Floyd or Floyd’s great curries, his legacy lives on at Lupe Pintos.
Still there are others and I saw most of them at the BBC GOOD FOOD SHOW back in 2001. We had taken out a LUPE PINTO stand under Rick Stein’s Food Hero Banner, we're mentioned in his book in the supplier section. We were there to launch our new book TWO COOKS AND A SUITCASE. Each morning we put out  piles of chilies, hot sauces, fine Tequila and piles of our book , then we’d wait anxiously for the NEC doors to open, this was the quiet time, a time to reflect, to get ready for the mayhem the next seven hours would bring.