Sir Tom hotly tips Berliana’s special sauce
Entrepreneur, 6, wins £ 1k backing
Sc o t l a n d ’ s y o u n g e s t entrepreneur has won the support of one of the most successful to get her cooking business running.
Six- year- old Berliana Mckenzie, from Inverness, is one of more than 100 young people in Scotland to have been granted £ 1,000 by The Hunter Foundation.
Businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter launched his foundation’s ‘ 100 Disrupters’ competition earlier this year, which awarded young people cash to turn their business dreams into reality.
Berliana came up with the plan to recreate a recipe that has been in her mother’s family for more than 100 years. The little chef will combine her father’s Scottish roots and her mother’s Indonesian heritage to create a special spicy hot sauce known as “Sambal”. Berliana, whose name means ‘ diamond’ in Indonesian, said: “I want to make my old family recipe for Sambal famous throughout the world.” The business, which is named “Indo- Scotian Baby Berli’s Hot Sizzling Sambal” will be h e l p e d b y d a d R i c h a r d , f r o m C a i t h n e s s , a n d mum Novi from the I s l e o f J a v a , Indonesia.
Richard, 59, said: “My little girl is amazingly creative. Me and my wife often sit back and shake our heads b e c a u s e we a re astounded by her.” The grant will help Berliana buy equipment to make her jars of Sambal, which is made using a top secret concoction of spices, to sell to her neighbours before branching out to supermarkets. Founder Sir Tom Hunter said: “We were very impressed by the many brilliant initiatives entered by young people in Scotland.”