A world first?
While I was in Turkey, my friend Aylin took me to a marvellous sweet shop in Kadıköy – Sekerci Cafer Erol, an old family business specialising in…
Eating ladies’ thighs
It’s been a while since I posted here, mainly because I was away on holiday for a couple of weeks, and then came back to an…
Dining in Hangzhou
There’s a piece of mine in the Financial Times Weekend today, about the wonderful restaurants of Hangzhou. And a mention of the paperback of ‘Shark’s Fin’…
Crazy menu translations
The photographer Ian Cumming was my partner-in-crime on one of my Xinjiang food research trips. It was a hilarious couple of weeks: we were trailed by…
Telegraph ex-pat book club
‘Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper’ has been chosen as the first book featured by the international ex-pat wing of the Daily Telegraph’s website. This is great,…