From Malaga If someone asks me what is my favourite plate, a bunch of them stroll through my mind, but soup is my number one, definitely. A huge bowl of chicken soup gives me energy against the flu or hangover. In wintertime, soup, soup, soup. Vegetables and mint leaves, in a mild broth, are a perfect
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UK In Brazil we usually say that the new year just really starts after Carnival. January and February are a bit yuck. Slow, lazy… Sometimes fast, true. Always boring. But the breakthrough does not happen on Ash Wednesday, when we normally go back to work in the middle of the day with a massive hangover
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UK I love cake. I know you love cake too. But why do we love cake so much?I have a theory. Smells and flavours work together and have an enormous power. They allow us to travel in time, but always to the past. When we eat a slice of cake, we travel directly to our first memories. Our childhood memories. When I eat a
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Feb
UK It all started when I opened my restaurant in 2015. Portugal has a vast variety on local products. You can find the best wine at your own region, great bread in the next door small bakery and wonderful cheese at a county farmer. For my tapas restaurant in Leiria, Portugal, I wanted something different,
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Jan
UK I will never forget the day I walked into The Baldwin Gallery to get a feel of what was going to be my next adventure in the kitchen. I felt astonished, overwhelmed by the beautiful architecture of this Victorian house. It was a big source of stories, real or from one’s imagination, breathing history. But there
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Malaga Ready to travel the following day, buy food to cook seems to me waste a precious time. That’s why I’ve done a search through the kitchen and found six potatoes, some tomatoes, mushrooms, half pepper, sausage and two eggs. In my mind an idea to prepare a tortilla, but I was lazy to slice
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Jan
UK Camping less than an hour’s drive from home might not seem like the most exotic of getaways, but the holiday had all the components of a great trip – good food, good friends, and the rarest of British summertime occurrences, sunshine! It came at a good time – we were all in need of
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Ireland Every good moment deserves to be shared. The recipe as following to the letter is adapted, replacing the hamburger bread to a brioche instead. Last year has been full of tasty memories, from the canjica – a brazilian sweet dish made with white maize, coconut milk and cinnamon -, to a mouth watering barbecue
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Dec
UK The other day I told my grandmother that I had asked my mother the recipe of her sun-dried tomatoes. I thought I was making her proud, bringing back that sweet part of our story. Little I knew… When I was a kid and along my teenage years sun-dried tomatoes were THE THING at my
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Dec
Germany “One month! I’m here in in Germany for a month already!” She hadn’t even unpacked yet. Her mind was still in Rio, in the last preparations for the trip. When she was packaging everything, a friend phoned and asked if she still had the sardine pizza recipe – a family flavour. The question seemed