Here is my very own countdown to the world cup in Rio: I am trying to collect recipes or ideas for every single country participating in the world cup finals … Wish me luck!
I really like simple food: a few ingredients, quickly mixed together without much fuss, to great effect. A lot of Japanese food, however, requires years to build up the necessary skills, and hours to find the exact ingredients. I have to admit I would not have the patience to attempt making sushi, and I bet it…
Côte d’Ivoire, a former French colony, is by far the biggest exporter of cocoa in the world. The cocoa plant comes originally from the tropical forests of South and Central America (Peru, Ecuador, Brazil etc), where it still forms an important part of the diet: a Columbian friend assures me that hot chocolate drinks are consumed with many meals,…
Only days after their king Juan Carlos announced he would step down, the Spanish football team, too, abdicated from their reign as world champions, and they did so without any style. Beaten successively and comprehensively, they were the first team to go out, thereby ruining whatever credibility I ever had for predicting the winner of this…
I know I should be making more of an effort here, but it is tough. England’s football nemesis is Germany, but the Germans and Dutch are far too busy trying to beat each other to care much about the rest of the world: there is a whole wikipedia entry dedicated to the rivalry between the…
Algeria should really be a contender for the World Cup, having produced some of the most successful players in recent years: Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri. Unfortunately, they all play or played for France, the country to which their parents escaped to from the poverty and violence of Algeria. One of the most…
Cristiano Ronaldo, or Portugal, as he is often referred to, hasn’t had a great World Cup so far, and probably the less said the better. So let’s quickly move on to something much more pleasant, namely these delicious custard tartlets called either pastéis de nata, cream tartlets, or pastéis de Belém, after the district in Lisbon where…
Teaching in and around London has the advantage that you get students from all kind of backgrounds, so when I was faced with the challenge of preparing something traditionally Nigerian, I was able to get a recipe off one of my students, whose mum, like many immigrants here, came to England via Germany. Quite regularly when…
Costa Rica, despite a fantastic start, is perhaps not the most likely candidate to win the World Cup Finals, at least not this time. A rather small county in Central America, it boasts tropical rain forests, beautiful beaches, and a rather oddly named national dish: gallo pinto literally translates to ‘spotted chicken’, despite the fact…
When the Greek team won the European Cup in 2008, it came as a major surprise: nobody had seen this coming. It’s not very likely though that they will repeat their success anytime soon, judging by the way they played against Colombia the other day. Perhaps they can muster some of their old determination against Japan…
Cameroon is yet another African country I know very little of, so this was my first – rather cheeky – attempt at presenting you with a Cameroonian dish: As you can see, I had to start from scratch. ‘Scratch’ being another word for ‘google’, I suppose, because as I was trawling the net I came…
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