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Tag Archives: Food
Genghis’ Camp.
This didn’t feel like Central Asia. The road was smooth, the ride quiet, the old Mercedes van that did the honours as our marshrutka, or collective taxi, wasn’t packed to the gunwales. Our driver, a faded Denver Broncos hat planted on … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Tagged Ala tau, Central Asia, Cholpon Ata, Ethno Park, Felt tent, Food, Gorge, Issyk Kul, Jailoo, Jew's Harp, Kyrchyn, Kyrchyn Jailoo, Kyrgyzstan, Lake, Lenin, Lenin statue, Mountains, Music, Nomad, Throat singing, Tien Shan, WNG, World Nomad Game, Yurt
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To the last city.
No, that’s a misnomer. Tashkent was, if anything, Uzbekistan’s first city, at least in the modern sense of the term. First one to be occupied by the Russians, first one to be reached by a railroad, first to host all … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Uzbekistan
Tagged Asia, Central Asia, Christianity, City, Cityscape, Cycling, Earthquake, Food, G55 AMG, Hotel Uzbekistan, Islam, Islam Karimov, Karimov, Kazakhstan, Korean, Kosmonavtlar, Lenin, Marx, Mercedes, Mirobod, Soviet, Soviet Union, Street photography, Urban photography, USSR, Uzbek Koreans, Uzbekistan
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Hanoi: life on the streets.
I love writing longreads, but sometimes there are places, situations or moments where that only great writers can render through words, and I’m not of them. One such place is Hanoi’s Old Quarter. I could ramble about it for pages … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Vietnam
Tagged Asia, Cone caps, Food, Hanoi, Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Photography, Street photography, Vietnam
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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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Naples: unearthing the treasure trove (Part I)
The cab was a Rénault estate, so old that – had it been a person – it could’ve legally been allowed to drive. It had about 300,000 km on the odometer and, rather worryingly, wobbly seat belts that wouldn’t tighten … Continue reading
Posted in Campania, Europe, Italy, Napoli, Overlooked locations
Tagged Art, Campania, Food, Italy, Metro, Naples, Napoli, Nilo, Religion, Rough Diamond, Southern Italy, Vesuvius, Volcano
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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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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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Scotland, Part 2. Reasons why you should visit Edinburgh before anywhere else in Britain.
Later this year, Scotswomen and men will be queuing up at polling stations to have their say about what’s probably the most important decision they’ll collectively make in their life time. Given the historic importance of such an event I … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Overlooked locations, Scotland, UK
Tagged Edinburgh, Food, Music, Random memories, Scotland
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