We did a hell of a lot of food-related activities over the last 12 months for Grantourismo. And my best foodie travel moments of the year didn’t occur while seated at a voguish restaurant… My Best Foodie Travel Moments from our Grand Tour These are the best food and culinary travel moments from our yearlong … Read more
When I put out a call on Twitter for ideas as to what I should cook while we were in Edinburgh for my series The Dish, about the quintessential dishes of the places we settle into, Scottish chef Gary Robinson, former personal chef to Prince Charles and chef of Mezzanine, one of our favourite restaurants in … Read more
Having lived in the Middle East for so long and traveled widely and written about the food, we have to admit that we consider ourselves to be something of connoisseurs of Middle Eastern cuisines – often very mistakenly reduced to just being called ‘Lebanese food’. We love a great hummus and nobody does it better … Read more
This tomato bredie recipe makes a classic Cape Town stew. This bredie (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘stew’) is a slow-cooked mutton and tomato stew. The variety and amount of spices added have an infinite variety of permeations. This is my version of the tomato bredie inspired by our time in Cape Town. Jet lag makes … Read more
When we arrive at the compact, down-to-earth Copacabana eatery, Tasco de Lido, the other three couples in our Cook in Rio cooking class are already chatting away cheerfully as they sip drinks. Bob Marley is blasting on the stereo and the restaurant’s vivacious owner and Brazilian cooking course instructor chef Simone Theisen is singing along … Read more