The more you cook, the more recipes you know, the more you develop an arsenal of basic ingredients that you just always have around. This is especially true when learning to cook food from countries around the world. If you’re learning to cook Indian food for example, as delicious as it is, you not only [...]
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The Food
Food reflects much of a region’s culture and way of living and thus, is an important component of traveling. In many cases, a specific culture can be identified based on one dish! Sushi, for example, instantly brings to mind the Japanese. Food around the world differs so much; you would think that, with the limited number of edible, healthy plants and animals, there would only be so many ways to prepare them. This is not so, however; the sheer amount of unique global cuisine boggles the mind!
In my travels I try to indulge as much as possible in the local menus - I’ll purposely avoid tourist restaurants (where they aim to serve watered-down versions of cultural food, or even food that is recognized internationally as fast food) and follow a pack of native-speakers when dinner time rolls around. I hope that my recounts will help you (and your stomach) out in the future; for example, while jelly made of duck’s blood and rice may sound unappetizing to you, it is a common dish found in some Asian countries. Here I’ll comment, recommend, and let you know what to avoid in Tanzania… or even Quebec.
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When I travelled India, my mouth watered constantly with all the wonderful smells I was surrounded by. Indian cooking involves the intricate blending of spices such as turmeric, saffron and cardamom, with fresh ingredients, producing some of the most incredible flavours to ever hit your taste buds. While I was there, I made sure to [...]
Throw a good steak on the grill, or order a plate of ribs with steak on the side. Get it as done or as rare as you like it. Maybe you would like to try a meat lovers Pizza or if you can manage it, the infamous Heart Attack Burger that is growing in fame [...]
“Medical tourism” is a rather recent phenomena, in which (generally first world) travelers visit another nation for the purpose of obtaining some form of healthcare. The primary benefit of medical tourism is the much lower cost of health care or certain procedures. In some cases, alternative therapies and experimental procedures that are illegal in places [...]
Although westerners might be most familiar with the spicy foods “south of the border” in Mexico and South America, thanks to massive immigration from parts of Asia to the west in the second half of the twentieth century, Europeans, Americans, and Canadians are now discovering some of the world’s spiciest cuisines – mostly arising from [...]
