Paprika in Hungary

October 8, 2013

If it wasn't for 'vanilla' being the adjective for all things bland and boring, then for many people 'paprika' might mean the same. Compared to...

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Yemen

September 13, 2013

The recent surge of interest in Middle Eastern cooking sparked by Ottolenghi has focused on the edible delights of Lebanon and Morocco above all other...

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Buffalo Wings in Buffalo

July 23, 2013

On a recent trip to Buffalo, New York state to see a potential new equipment supplier, I spent about 48 hours there eating pretty much...

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Amsterdam, Hoorn & the Dutch East India Company

July 8, 2013

During the 17th century, international trade dominated Dutch life (nearly 1 million people in total sailed on the Dutch East Indies fleet - more than...

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Berlin

May 24, 2013

Berlin is not the first place I think of when going on a culinary world tour (particularly not a spicy one!). ...

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Sichuan Food in Chengdu, China

February 19, 2013

What Chengdu must have looked like about 10 years ago....and what it looks like now! ...

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Espelette and its special Pepper

November 11, 2012

Espelette is a small village in the Basque region of south west France, near the Pyrenees. To be honest, the area doesn't look particularly promising...

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Istanbul

September 9, 2012

Istanbul was a place I'd been keen to visit for years, it's truly one of the great cities of the world and despite all the...

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London & the East India Company

September 2, 2012

Watching the London Olympics recently, it occurred to me that despite all the amazing performances of Jess, Mo, Chris etc etc.....etc, maybe the biggest star...

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Mumbai 2011

July 24, 2012

I've been to India several times before but never to Mumbai, a city I imagined would be like the New York of India - full...

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Indonesia 2011

July 17, 2012

The Moluccas are a tiny group of Indonesian islands that centuries ago were known as the Spiceries - the place where spices were produced. For...

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Syria 2010

July 12, 2012

Syrian cooking is very sophisticated and subtle. It's the food of the Levant, that area of fertile land between the Eastern Mediterranean and the drier...

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