What’s eaten where: Albania
Home to the oldest lake in Europe and once cut off from much of the rest of the world, Albania has a bit of a...
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The snail culinarian
As a young girl in the village of Rizokarpaso she was renowned for her weaving skills. Today friends and family enjoy Maria Pitrakkou’s culinary reminiscences...
The pasteli pair
Carob hangs in black pods from the trees, but when Despoula and Andreas Michael turn it into caramel it turns a lucent golden-brown “When the...
The purest is still the best
Cypriots have been distilling zivania from fermented grape pomace since the fourteenth century. Today this traditional, strong spirit is EU-protected “In the olden days, everyone...
What’s Eaten Where: Murmansk Oblast
Google Murmansk and you’ll find the top things to do are 1) visit the world’s first nuclear-powered ship and 2) check out the Murmansk Regional...
What’s eaten where: Bora Bora
Occasionally, we like to indulge in a bit of office downtime. And it was in one such moment that we all played ‘where-would-I-go-if-I-hadn’t-signed-up-for-the-August-holiday-shift’ and discovered,...
The queen of spoon sweets
It already smells delicious on the steps leading down to Niki Agathokleous’ realm. In the two production rooms in the basement of the tiered hillside...
The blossom fairy
In the villages of the Paphos forest, the air is filled with a beguiling fragrance of early summer. A flower from Damascus comes into bloom,...
What’s eaten where: Nepal
This the country of the future, albeit with a very traditional present. In Nepal, you see, it’s already 2076 – the Bikram Sambat Nepali calendar...
The taste of Cyprus licked: unusual ice creams
When it comes to summer in Cyprus there really are only two things to eat, watermelon or ice cream. And when it comes to the...
The cheese goddesses
Dimitra Themistocleous is waiting for us at the side of the road, with an armful of flowers. Wild orchids. Aren’t they protected? “Well, the goats...
What’s eaten where: Malaysia
This is the country that bills itself as ‘Truly Asia’. And, if the cuisine is anything to go by, this may be a marketing campaign...
Looking forward to another summer of gin
It’s the drink of the moment: straight, laced, or sloshed in a cocktail. Gin bars, gin spas and even gin weddings are popular the world...
The fisherman
Sardines, octopus, shrimp, goatfish, mackerel – the waters off the coast of Cyprus are teeming with life. According to Yiorgos Nikola, fifteen kilos is a...
What’s eaten where: Hokkaido
This is both an island and a dog. Yes, Hokkaido refers to either the northernmost prefecture of Japan – a roughly diamond-shaped island that’s the...
What’s Eaten Where: BARBADOS
This is the birthplace of Rihanna. It’s the home of West Indies cricket captain Jason Holder. And the setting for Tiger Woods’ wedding to Elin...
Herbs and fresh greens flourish in Cyprus
A whole roomful of green! Verdantly fresh. Leafy, fibrous, fine-stemmed, woody; loose and tied into bunches. Grass and jade colours, lime green, frog green. The...
What’s eaten where: Togo
Togo is a country known, officially, as the Togolese Republic. At just 57,000 square kilometres it’s one of the smallest nations on the continent –...
A family of meat smokers
The smoked pork and goat’s meat products from the Pitsilia region were already regarded as delicacies in pre-Venetian times Chrisostomos, Niki and Georgia Kafkalia are...
Ktima Gerolemo: at the heart of the island’s wine industry
Undisputedly, Omodos village is the wine capital of Cyprus, surrounded by several wineries and their vineyards covering the mountain tops such as Afames and Kremnos...
