Food Safari :: Middle Eastern

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll know that about once a month, a group of 5 friends and I get together to ‘travel the world through our tastebuds’. One of us chooses a cuisine and we all …

Food, Glorious Food

Money food makes the world go round. Food is about so much more than the food itself.  It’s about the atmosphere it’s eaten in; a buzzing market, a classic restaurant, through the window as your bus passes somebody selling something …

Eating and Drinking in Cartagena | Honeymoon

Before going to Cartagena de Indias, I had no idea what Colombia food was like! The only Colombian food I’d heard of were arepas, but I thought I might find it quite tricky to find veggie/ fish food.  Luckily, there …

Favourite Chilean Food

So, this will probably differ from most people’s lists about their favourite Chilean foods.  You could usually expect to see lists that are made up of meat on the BBQ, completos (hotdogs with avocado, tomatoes, mayo, ketchup and mustard – …

Food I’ll Long For

When I think of traditional British food, I think of fish & chips, Sunday roast dinner, steak & kidney pie and bangers & mash.  These are none of the foods I will miss when I move to Chile, mostly because …

The Story of Chai

They say smell transports you back to a place, a moment or a time.  And I believe that taste does too.  Last week, I was transported back to my host family’s dining room table in Nepal, I was transported back …

The Food of Cornwall

A big part of travel is exploring new foods, tasting new tastes and eating out. Despite Cornwall being not so far away from London, there are definitely some food treats that they are famous for: Cornish pasties. Cornish pasties are sold …

Finding My Favourite Food

Food, eating habits, eating customs, flavours… they are all huge parts of travelling and mean we get to learn more and more about a country through our tastebuds. In 2008, when I first booked to go to Nepal and India …

A Taste of Chile in London

When I first knew that there would be a Chilean restaurant opening in London, I knew we’d go as soon as it opened!  Last week the doors to Rica Rica opened for the first time.  This street food restaurant is …

Colourful Pancakes

Last week was everyone’s favourite Tuesday of the year… Pancake Day!  How many countries celebrate Pancake Day, by the way? Well, we do here in the UK.  I decided to make some very colourful pancakes and treated them a bit …