Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
My culinary adventures in New York City continued in Queens. My Brooklyn-based host Mike was keen for a Queens outing so I met up with him after work and we caught the F train out to Jackson Heights. I had originally intended to go to Queens earlier in the day so I could visit some [...]
We all think we know what Chinese food is but the truth is that it’s incredibly diverse. The most common style of Chinese cuisine in the West is Cantonese but China is an enormous country and even within the majority Han population, there is vast regional variation in the cuisine. When you take into account [...]
Restaurant review for Abeno, Japanese okonomoyaki restaurant in London. So you think you know Japanese food? You’re familiar with sushi and sashimi, maybe even tempura and teriyaki beef? Well what about okonomoyaki? This is my new favourite Japanese food and the place to go in London is Abeno in Bloomsbury. It’s usually not too busy [...]
Everyone is familiar with Mexican food in some guise but usually what we get in the English speaking world and Europe is actually Tex-Mex – an Americanised version of Mexican food. I’m told that nachos, for example, is not traditional in Mexico, that the burritos are usually smaller and skimpier on the fillings, and that [...]
When you think of New Zealand and food, pizza does not automatically spring to mind. The great Kiwi culinary exports are lamb, cheese and butter, kumera (sweet potato), and of course, kiwi fruit. (They also claim to have invented pavlova but so do the Aussies and I’m not willing to enter into that debate). Yet, [...]
I’ve been working in Farringdon this week so I popped up to Exmouth Market to sample some food from the street market. I had various choices, including Italian sausages and Breton pancakes, but I was most struck by Spinach & Agushi, the Ghanaian food stall. It’s obviously quite popular because, as well as having to [...]
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