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…
Having to play the host nation, Brazil, is probably a rather daunting thought, but I am sure the Mexican team will give it their best try. I liked the funny wrestling masks some of their supporters were sporting in their match against Cameroon, but I wonder if they will be quite so cheerful this time……
Belgium is one of the most overlooked countries in Europe: despite its glorious cities and famous writers (Tintin’s Herge or Georges Simenon, the creator of Jules Maigret), most people simply know it as the geographical home of the European Parliament, and in the UK that’s not really seen as a Good Thing. The most important…
Just as the Inuit apparently have hundreds of different expressions for ‘snow’, the German language has countless metaphors steeped in sausages. Not literally, obviously. Thus if you are recycling, or even upcycling, anything, you are ‘using it for sausages’, ‘verwursten‘. Often this suggests a bit of a botched job (after all, it’s mostly offcuts and the bits…
I don’t know much about Ecuador, neither the football team nor the food. All I could come up with is the painter Oswaldo Guayasamin, whose paintings of indigenous people mirror the pain they are suffering in their everyday lives. The issue of the rights for indigenous people has been simmering away across the continent: the…
Chile’s bid for the world cup is only slightly less hopeless than Australia’s: although they had an excellent run up, the fact that they will have to get past the reigning world champion, Spain, and the runner up of the last world cup, Holland, makes you despair. Nevertheless they are often cited as one of…
This recipe is incredibly quick and easy to make: it takes an hour, but 45 minutes of that are spent winding up your kids, checking their homework and your mail or watching the news while the stew is simmering contentedly in the kitchen. I use dried chickpeas, which I soak overnight and then cook in my pressure cooker.…
To start off my Countdown to Rio, here is my Italian entry. After all, they got to the finals of the Euro 2012 (after beating Germany in the semifinals. I can still feel the pain). Pesto surely must be the most popular Italian export after the Fiat 500. Here in Britain you can even get…
Technically this is a vichyssoise with Frankfurters, but that’s not a title that will impress the kids. Sausage soup is what we call it, and it’s the combination of a catchy title and, well, sausages that make it a fail-safe option when friends stay over or spirits are low. It’s quickly made – including cutting…
Empanadas are to South American culture what beers are to Europe: every country has their their own version which is considered the best and only version, and most definitely the original one. Chileans traditionally serve them on Independence Day, September 18, but in my mind any day has the potential to be an empanadas day. They are…
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