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The night raid to Billingsgate.
Shopping for food in the UK is often not, for yours truly, a joyous experience, and this is due to the utter lack of variety. Honest, there’s more individuality in a pool of cloned cells than in UK’s supermarkets. Even … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Europe, London, UK
Tagged Billingsgate, Billingsgate Market, Blitz, Canada Square, Canary Wharf, Chip shop, City of London constabulary, Cockney, Del Boy, Docklands, East End, Eels, England, Fish, Fish Market, Green Park, India, Kent, Lent, Lobster, London, Luftwaffe, Market, Night, Night Tube, Salmon, Sea Bass, Snapper, Thames, Tilapia, Trout, Tube, Tuna, UK
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After (and away from) the tuna auction: Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo.
Clint Eastwood, in the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly once said that there are two kinds of people: those who dine at restaurants, and those who see nothing wrong in standing up for their meal in front of … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Asia, Japan, Tokyo
Tagged Asia, Edo, Fish Market, Food, Gentrification, Mollusc, Oyster, Seafood, Street food, Tokyo, Tsukiji, Tuna, Tuna Auction
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The sacred and the profane, or an afternoon at Fushimi Inari Taisha.
The Japanese approach to religion sounds odd and unfamiliar to those, like yours truly, grown up in the shadow of the clear-cut divisions operated by monotheistic cults. Folks, over here in the archipelago, can be Shinto, and Buddhist, at the same … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Asia, Japan, Kyoto
Tagged Asia, Buddhism, Dango, Eels, Faith, Fox, Fushimi Inari, Gion, Inari, Japan, Kyoto, Okonomiyaki, Shintō, Street food, Takoyaki, Torii, Yakitori
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Börek, burek, byrek, byorek, bouréki: a food pilgrimage.
In 1389 a momentous event happened, something that changed the landscape of the Balkans, and of much of Central Europe, for ever. The armies of Murad I, no longer held in check by the Byzantine empire, swarmed into the Balkan … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Balkans, Bosnia Herzegovina, Europe
Tagged çay, Börek, Bosnia, Burek, Croatia, Cuisine, Pekara Edin, pogača, sade açma, Sarajevo, simit, Turkey, Zagreb, ćevapčići
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Food for the road: beer-marinated rabbit and Kuroda potatoes
A few weeks ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Food recipes, Italy, Uncategorized
Tagged Agriculture, Food for the road, Kuroda, Organic, Paysage a Manger, potatoes, Rabbit, Salmì, Valle d'Aosta, Vallee d'Aoste
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Food for the road: rabbit legs and Vitelotte potatoes
A few days ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Europe, Food recipes, Italy
Tagged All things food, Food, Food for the road, potatoes, Rabbit, Recipe, Valle d'Aosta, Vallee d'Aoste, Vitelotte
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Food for the road: Maluns, Graubünden style
A few days ago I left the Alpine Lys Valley, where I visited my friend Federico’s new business Paysage à Manger, with some kilos’ worth of potatoes of four different types, species that have been unavailable from our tables for quite … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Europe, Food recipes, Italy
Tagged Food, Food for the road, Graubünden, Lys, Maluns, Paysage a Manger, potatoes, Recipe, Valle d'Aosta, Walser, Weltwunder
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Back to the roots: the return of agriculture in the Alps
“We decided to grow potatoes because potatoes were the staple that fuelled the Alps’ demographic boom”, explains Federico, a hand gesture encircling the tiny field, no longer than half a football field, stretching on front of us. With hindsight, finding … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Europe, Italy, Overlooked locations, Val d'Aosta
Tagged Agriculture, Alps, Coumarial, Fontainemore, Heritage, History, Italy, Lys, Mountains, Paysage a Manger, potatoes, Rediscovery, Valle d'Aosta, Vallee d'Aoste
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Granville Island Market, Vancouver
Immediately south of downtown Vancouver lies Granville Island. The fact that this is actually a peninsula gives me room to think that locals have a thing for giving the wrong names to places, a suspicion that is confirmed by the … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Canada, Sea
Tagged Berries, British Columbia, Canada, False Creek, Food, Fruit, Granville Island, Market, Seagulls, Urban renovation, Vancouver, Vegetables
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A bowl of duck noodles and dumplings: how Hong Kong redeemed itself.
Hong Kong had, up that moment, disappointed us. True, the sci-fi looks we had expected were as shiny as we wanted them to be, but everything else was too sanitised, too franchised and too blatantly volgar for us to like … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Asia, Hong Kong, Overlooked locations
Tagged Asia, China, Food, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Overlooked places
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