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…
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…
The most exciting thing about the U.S. team is its coach: Jürgen Klinsman, the former German national coach, who played for Tottenham and Stuttgart and hails from a small town near where I grew up. Klinsi is the perfect representative of my region in that he embodies the pragmatism we are known for: despite working as a professional footballer for…
After the disappointment of Spain, I am not sure as to what to say about France. In recent competitions the bleus have lived up to their English translation, the Blues, by looking a bit sad and forlorn. I have to say I have had a soft spot for them since I saw them play Brazil in Mexico in 1986 –…
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