And how fitting and serendipitous it is that we can complete our culinary world tour of the alphabet as the calendar year is drawing to a close. This one’s mine, and I chose New Zealand as our foodie destination (sadly without Lianne, who moved north to Scotland last month). I hope you will excuse the …
2022
Xhosa: Parting is such sweet (and savoury) sorrow!
This is a bit of a sad one. Our cozy little Dinner Club family is shrinking… Lianne is moving to Scotland, and this is her farewell dinner. It almost didn’t happen – with the mammoth task of moving her entire life from east-London to an Edinburgh suburb, there was not much time or head-space left …
Yucatan. Coz Y not Mexico
Or: How to get away with doing Mexican again, without incurring the wrath of Dorottya. 23 June 2022 Yes, yes, we should be on X. But X is Lianne’s, and she is currently couch-surfing between homes, so Bernhard is doing Y first. And his mother is coming. And it’s her birthday. We’re gonna to have …
Who Framed the Welsh Rarebit?
Idit, March 21st 2022 Or: WE ATE WALES Because Idit found a list of traditional Welsh dishes on BBC Good Food – and cooked it. The whole bloomin’ lot. Here it is: Welsh Rarebit Glamorgan Sausage Bara Brith Lamb Cawl Conwy Mussels Leeks Tart Laverbread Crempogs Sewin and Samphire Salt Marsh Lamb No, I tell …
V for Vend… Oh, Vanuatu!
Dorottya, Feb 7th 2022 Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch along 1,300 kilometres, with a population of a little over 307,000 people.It gained its independence in 1980 from France and Britain, who called it The New Hebrides, because they didn’t have enough imagination to come up …
U – Yoqimli Ishtaha!
Uzbekistan, Arianna, 10.1.22 It didn’t take much research to see that if I wanted to go for a cuisine which would be different than most of the ones we’ve done so far, and which would take me outside my cooking-comfort zone, it would have to be Uzbek. This near-eastern Muslim country sits on the crossroads …