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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...
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...
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...
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!). ...
Sichuan Food in Chengdu, China
February 19, 2013
What Chengdu must have looked like about 10 years ago....and what it looks like now! ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...