Turkish Cuisine After spending three months in rural Turkey I was back in Istanbul and was craving something other than the usual Turkish meal. I asked the hotel manager if he had any suggestions for anything but Turkish cuisine and his response was priceless. “But why? Why don’t you want Turkish food?” As much as […]
Asia
Stories of food and culture from our travels through Asia.
Honest Food Tales – Slow Vegan Travel
A Minimal Raw Food Experience At Giva in Chiang Mai Chiang Mai is a very popular destination for people who live and breathe healthy living, yoga, meditation and healthy food too. We soon perceived it after walking around the city and noticing that there were so many healthy food restaurants, cafes, stalls for smoothies prepared on […]
SOM TOM aka GREEN PAPAYA SALAD
Weird and gangly All over the island of Maui you will spot trees loaded with papaya. A weird and gangly looking tree capable of growing tall to reach the sun and producing large clusters of fruit, papaya grows effortlessly in the tropics. Modest fruit It is modest in flavour but has lots of hidden uses and […]
Married with Luggage: Our First Meal at Home – WHITE BEAN AND CHORIZO SOUP
This is a guest post by Betsy and Warren Talbot of An Uncluttered Life. Since we began traveling the world in 2010, my husband Warren has collected recipes. Every time we have a great meal, meet a chef, or start a conversation at a market, he wants to know what’s cooking and how it’s made. […]
Fear of Flying
Told to go left You board ahead of everyone else, you enter the plane and are told to go left, beyond the curtain that separates the elite from the down trodden. You sit in your lazy boy sized seat and stretch out your legs. You’re asked whether you want a grooming kit, a snack and then the drinks start flowing. We all hope […]
Honest Food Tales – Masala Herb
Agra, India Years ago I remember standing, lost but excited, at a junction in north India, Agra. It was a dream or so I thought, it was unreal, as if time had stopped flowing all together. The amount of action in my environment was completely overwhelming and although I had prepared my mind for the […]
My Canada in Winter
Winter in Canada I was invited by Pamela at Savoir Faire Abroad to take part in her My Canada series, winter edition. You may remember us participating with our post This is My (our) Canada earlier this year. The fact of the matter is, not all Canadians love winter. I’m (Nat) one of those Canadians. I love winter […]
Honest Food Tales – A Travellers Journey
Love for a country often starts in the stomach, which is where my infatuation with Indonesia really began and but for a change of history and geography could have abruptly ended. So let me chart the culinary highs and unsavory lows with five dishes from the main islands of Indonesia. I’ll start with the delectable, […]