If you travel to any major city or tourist destination in the world, you are bound to encounter more tourist traps than you can handle. And while you might be smug to think that you will be able to spot a tourist trap once you see one, this is not so evident in places which are extremely busy with tourists and which have a bad reputation when it comes to food. Places which … [Read more...]
Alain Passard: My garden saved my life – (Chef’s Table review)
Alain Passard is considered to be an idol by many chefs. Three Michelin star chef of restaurant Arpège in Paris, France, he is mainly known for inventing the vegetable to table movement removing meat from his restaurant and serving a cuisine that is mainly focused on seasonal vegetables. Passard has been working with a mainly vegetarian menu at his restaurant since 2001. … [Read more...]
Food for thought at the Antwerp à la carte exhibition
Did you know that one third of all food produced in the world each year gets wasted? That is 1.3 billion tonnes. Did you know that it takes to make a litre of beer, it takes 75 litres of water, a kilo of coffee 140 litres of water, 1 kilo of eggs 3,300 litres of water, 1 kilo of wheat 1,ooo litres of water and 1 kg of beef 16,000 litres of water? You can learn about food at … [Read more...]
French chefs in focus in Chef’s Table season 3 to be launched on 2 September
For two consecutive seasons which featured 12 top chefs from around the world, France, the centre of the culinary world was ignored. But that seems to have been a deliberate decision by the producer who have now made amends by launching a whole season focusing on France. The highly successful documentary series featuring top chefs from around the world, will place the … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #87
A Food Crawl Through San Sebastián With One of the World’s Top Chefs: About an hour’s drive east of Bilbao, and just 12 miles west of the French border, lies San Sebastián, a coastal Northern Spain gem of a resort town located in the country’s Basque region. Reputed for its turquoise waters, palm tree–lined streets, and—most of all—its cuisine, San Sebastián which also goes by … [Read more...]
