Pumpkin Soup – Convenient Food, My Way

Apparently the most important market for the food industry is so-called convenience food. People want to come home to a home-made dinner, but without the inconvenience of having to cook it. However, convenience food does not necessarily have to come out of a tin, or a plastic pack: sometimes the packaging is completely biodegradable. Take a pumpkin:…

Dulce de Leche-filled Churros

Last week’s food headlines proclaimed that the Mediterranean diet, according to an American study, may slow the aging process of our brains considerably. How fortunate for me that I had just purchased a kitchen gadget that would ensure my following of that particular diet: a churros press.Similar to donuts, churros are deep-fat fried and covered…

Gravad Lax

When I was making ceviche the other week it clearly marked the beginning of a new phase in my life: the raw fish period, as posterity will clearly call it. Fresh fish has such a wonderful texture that to cook it often comes close to a crime. The only way to keep it that way…

Bircher Müesli

Autumn has arrived in England – we know this because it’s suddenly sunny and warm outside, unlike in Summer, when it was rainy and miserable for most of the time. Autumn means shorter days, giant spider webs, yellowing leaves and, for me at last, a change in my daily breakfast routine. Whereas in the summer…

5 Things We Loved About … Rio de Janeiro

How many times have you bought postcards on your holidays and then forgot to either write or send them? To be honest, Rio de Janeiro would have been the most obvious place to buy too many, as few skylines in the world are more iconic, or more controversial: the iconic shape of the sugarloaf, rainforest-covered…