Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(Saisonnier) Carmen Angel en Rob Pevitts leren elkaar in 2005 kennen tijdens hun studie aanhet Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute in San Francisco. Drie jaar later verhuist het stel naar Medellín en, enthousiast om hun culinaire kennis te delen in de tweede grootste stad van Colombia, beginnen ze aan hun eerste project. Carmen Restaurante is […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) By expanding the traditional 50-strong list to include 100 restaurants for the first time, Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants suddenly became more geographically inclusive. The new list, unveiled recently in Mérida, Mexico, not only recognised restaurants in Central America – from Guatemala, El Salvador and a cluster of additions in Panama – but also […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Mexicans take food seriously, and given the strong Mayan culinary culture with Spanish and Lebanese influences in the Yucatán, Mérida is an obvious destination to host Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022. Mexico’s traditional cuisine and milpa agriculture was named Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, thanks to “its ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and […]
(Good Beer Hunting) When a farmers’ strike in Peru’s Cusco region stops travel into the Sacred Valley, it’s suddenly impossible to reach Cervecería del Valle Sagrado, perhaps the most influential brewery and taproom in the Andes. Unwilling to be branded a scab or run into a crowd of striking farmers, I stay put in my […]
(Topia) While Fulani chef Fatmata Binta was awarded the Basque Culinary World Prize for exploring West African cuisine’s diaspora through her innovative ‘Dine on a Mat’ experience and setting up the Fulani Kitchen Foundation for women and girls, two questions struck me: who are the Fulani and what does being Fulani mean? Today’s digital nomads […]
(Fodor’s) Creating restaurant bucket lists, locking down a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town, and ordering the most Instagrammable dish on the menu can make or break a foodie’s vacation. Yet, even if you do get to London, São Paulo, or Bangkok, your budget might not match your dream dining experience. So we’re sharing […]
(La Nación) En 2021 alcanzó el puesto 13 en el ranking de The World’s 50 Best Restaurants -los 50 mejores restaurantes del mundo- y por cuarto año consecutivo, Parrilla Don Julio mantuvo su presencia en la lista más reconocida del mundo gastronómico en el puesto 14. El anuncio se hizo en Londres, en una ceremonia presencial en […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Food can be an important vehicle for change—an idea embodied by Accra-born, New York-raised Selassie Atadika, chef and founder, Midunu and The Midunu Institute. She started her career as a humanitarian response worker for UNICEF, and her travels across 40 African countries brought her to food. For the rest of this, please visit Condé […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Some say that in the coming decades, zero-waste eating will be the new locavorism (the latter should simply be the norm in good restaurants). One of the movement’s leaders is the U.K.-based McMaster, who opened Silo in Brighton, England, in 2014 with plates made from recycled plastic bags and tables from industrial floor tiles, composting […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Having grown up on a high-altitude farm in Peru’s Cusco region, Choqque has been studying the country’s 6,400 native potato varieties since his father showed him how to hand-pollinate in a bid to improve tuber genetics. “We had 380 types in our collection, entering them in competitions in hopes of winning a tractor,” he […]