Author: Theodora

Babi Guling – Balinese Sucking Pig

Babi Guling – Balinese Sucking Pig

Babi guling is one of the great joys of any trip to Bali and quite possibly the ultimate breakfast dish. At least for any fan of Vitamin P. This succulent, spicy, endlessly mouthwatering take on the classic sucking (not suckling!) pig is one of the 

Greek Octopus Salad – Yes Please!

Greek Octopus Salad – Yes Please!

If there is one dish that the Greeks do better than anyone in the world, it’s octopus salad. And, after several dismal, dry and bland, attempts at octopus salad in Turkey (like samphire, this is an area that Turkish cooks just seem to get wrong), 

Mexicana — What Is It With Mexican Food?

Mexicana — What Is It With Mexican Food?

There are surprisingly few places in the world where you can’t find some bastardised take on Mexican food. Beirut has had Tex-Mex since the 80s. Yes, during a sectarian civil war, and the Israeli invasion, they were importing Tequila, and, for all I know, packet 

A Curious Tale: Who Invented the Singapore Sling?

A Curious Tale: Who Invented the Singapore Sling?

Raffles Hotel, Singapore, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this month. (This despite the fact that the hotel didn’t open until 1 December 1887.) And, perhaps predictably, they’re celebrating with an anniversary cocktail, the 1887, based on the iconic Singapore Sling, with added champers, reduced pinkness 

Greek Country Cooking at Sto Kioupi

Greek Country Cooking at Sto Kioupi

If you stuck to the tourist trail in Greece, you could be forgiven for thinking that Greek cuisine, in its entirety, comprised souvlaki, moussaka, Greek salad, stuffed vine leaves from a tin, rubbery kalamari, watery tzatsiki, chips and over-priced, under-sized fish. And that would be 

Egyptian Food

Egyptian Food

Egyptian food does not have the world’s greatest reputation. Which is, frankly, a little unfair. Sure, a lot of Egyptian food is, fundamentally, Turkish, the staples that you’ll find all over what was once the Ottoman Empire, from the Middle East to the Balkans. The 

Stretchy, Super-Cool, Turkish Ice Cream!

Stretchy, Super-Cool, Turkish Ice Cream!

Turkish ice cream is different. Not just because, in the tourist towns, there are men in costumes working magic tricks with it for the kids. Though that’s pretty special. “Opa!” they cry, as they whisk a wodge of icecream away from the cone, leaving a 

The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

There’s no institution more quintessentially British than afternoon tea, a concept that travelled to the furthest reaches of the British Empire. And a concept so English that Victorian young ladies, invited to tea, were encouraged to fill up on bread and butter first. At the 

It’s Samphire Season!

It’s Samphire Season!

Samphire is up there with artichokes as a plant that doesn’t look like it was meant to be eaten, and with fiddlehead ferns as one of the most satisfying plants to forage. And, despite some abysmal weather, samphire season is well underway in the UK. 

Bedouin Fish

Bedouin Fish

When you think of the Bedouin, nomadic people who’ve been roaming the deserts of Arabia for well over five thousand years by most counts, the last dish you’d think of would be fish. Let alone fish with vegetables! But many Bedouin in coastal regions have