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Paprika in Hungary
If it wasn’t for ‘vanilla’ being the adjective for all things bland and boring, then for many people ‘paprika’ might mean the same. Compared to all the other spices paprika seems pretty unremarkable,...
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Guntur – Asia’s largest Chilli Market
It’s hard to think of Indian food without chilli powder but until the Portuguese introduced it in the 16th century the food was seasoned only with the spices that grew locally – pepper, ginger and...
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The fantastic food of Hyderabad
Hyderabad, the so-called ‘City of Pearls’ was home to a Mughal dynasty who accumulated unimaginable wealth from the diamond trade (in the 1930′s the Nizam of Hyderabad was estimated to be one of the...
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Trinidad – hot peppers & d’best tastin’ street food
Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain, isn’t going to win any awards for civic beauty but it’s full of colour, energy and it’s really interesting from our point of view because there’s some fantastic food...
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Mexico City – eat like a chilango*
I went to Mexico City about 10 years ago and I still remember being surprised at how nice the climate was, the beautiful buildings in the old centre and the fantastic food, but I also remember being...
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Mole Poblano in Puebla
Puebla is an incredibly attractive city in central Mexico full of beautiful churches, stunning Spanish colonial buildings decorated with old tiles and colourful painted walls, and it’s also home to...
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Kuala Lumpur – Mamak me up
If there was a league table of countries ranked by the quality of their food, Malaysia would have to be right at the very top, or in the Champions League places at the very least. The combination of...
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Hanoi – streetfood highlights
En route to Yangon I stopped for a few days in Hanoi, Vietnam. Armed with the recommendations of Thanh and Trang, our resident Vietnamese students and expert spice-packers, I took a whistlestop...
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Yangon, Myanmar – and now for something completely different
Every Myanmar guidebook seems to open with the same Rudyard Kipling quote – “this is Burma, and it is quite unlike any land you know about”. Kipling might have been right when he wrote that in 1890,...
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The Chettiars of Chettinad
Think you’ve found them all? Enter here. While Britain was being slowly submerged in rainwater over Christmas, I escaped for a few days to South India to soak up all the colours and energy as well...
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