Just because you eat something every day doesn’t mean it’s boring!
Since 2015, I’ve been telling stories about “everyday” food and the people who make it. I’ve worked as a food tour guide in Spain, a certified sommelier in Australia, and helped connect foodie travellers with local communities around the world.
Welcome to the world of everyday food!
It tasted like nail varnish. The cheap stuff, the stuff that you can smell a mile away and burns the hairs of your nostrils. That was my first experience with sherry wine, the favourite vino of southern Spain. I’d been served the wine at one
How the hell did we get here? A month ago, I was sitting in my apartment in Seville. I had packed my suitcase ready for a trip to Australia. It was meant to be a two week holiday, a quick trip home to go to
If you tune out the noise from Seville’s bustling tapas bars, you can hear something magical in the distance. Listen close, and you’ll pick up the purr of white tablecloths being ironed. You’ll spend most of your time in Spain in an old-school tapas bar,
Imagine a French person. What do they look like? Striped shirts, berets, maybe riding a bicycle with a baguette in the front basket? If you’re going off the stereotypes, then you’re picturing someone from Brittany. The image of the Breton farmer and fisherman is the
It seems crazy that anyone could be addicted to onions. Don’t get me wrong, I love onions. The smell of frying alliums is one of my favourite kitchen scents! But no one loves onions as much as the Catalans. Go to Catalonia in late winter
Sometimes, the O.G. ways are best. That was my thought as I saw a van full of nuns drive past me one hot afternoon in Seville. Nuns are a frequent sight in southern Spain, a place more Catholic than the Pope’s hat. But driving a
This blog is written on stolen lands belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded and colonial violence continues here to this day.