Kampot, Cambodia: A Blackpool-born entrepreneur is hoping to spice up the country’s kitchens using the “King of Peppers”.

Michael Winters, from Marton, who was a student at St Mary’s RC High, is bringing a gourmet style pepper to the UK which has been one of the best kept secrets of the French.

Kadode Kampot pepper comes from Cambodia and is of a variety that was almost forgotten during the days of the horrific regime of dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge who instigated the infamous killing fields.

Michael, who works in sales and marketing in London, but whose family live in Lomond Avenue, discovered the pepper on a career break in South East Asia.

He said: “I had been on holiday to India many times but wanted to travel off the beaten track to places such as Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

“On the way out I got talking to a woman on the plane who had a relative with a guest house in Kampot.

“I went there and discovered a French man who was helping the local farmers form a company called Farmlink.......

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