I recently followed my first ever Burmese recipe, for a lamb meatball curry, to a surprisingly successful conclusion. I had never knowingly eaten Burmese food and neither did I know much about Burma-now-Myanmar and its cuisine. The recipe listed sixteen ingredients, which is on the cusp of being too many for the likelihood of not […]
Japan transforms me into a hitherto unknown person who loves cute, jangly, dinky, plastic unnecessaries. Similarly, a lunch box obsession, both eating from shop-bought bento and buying packed lunch boxes, emerges and, through purchase of the latter, continues for at least a few months back home in the UK. Bento means “the useful thing” or
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You know those childhood pictorial mix and match flip books where you can flip the head/body/legs etc to create a kind of Frankenstein figure? Well, this is five days in Ljubljana mixed and matched to create a kind of favourite day, which by no means is advice to only spend a day in Ljubljana. Wake
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In Ortigia, I am wearing beautiful leather sandals and a floaty white Grecian-inspired dress as I walk along narrow alleyways with old buildings all around me and the sea rarely out of sight. Go to Ortigia, Sicily if you: love, love, love fresh, seasonal and delicious food; like Italian food but want to love it;
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In Ljubljana, I am shape shifting between being a well-dressed undercover agent (of the glamorous ilk) and an alternative 1960s student in a black roll neck and black “slacks”, distracted in both guises by the castle on the hill watching over me. Go to Ljubljana if you: fancy a city break (rather than, perhaps, a
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Cafe Čokl (slightly disappointingly, I believe it’s “Sokl” rather than “Cockle”), Krekov trg 8 (a few doors down from the bottom of the castle funicular, across from the outdoor market) Opening hours appear to be Monday-Saturday 7am to 9pm and Sunday 9am to 8pm. The flat white €2.50 . An 8 with potential for a
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