(Condé Nast Traveller UK) The owner of Slovenia’s restaurant Hiša Franko, named world’s best female chef in 2017, shares her top kitchen finds. Published in Condé Nast Traveller UK September 2019.
Moveable Feast: Ana Roš
Category: Food
Chef Kalika and his Jewish cuisine head to Manhattan
(Fine Dining Lovers) “I never dreamed I’d take my pastrami, one of Jewish cuisine’s most famous dishes, to New York,” says chef Tomás Kalika, who is just days away from popping up with his restaurant Mishiguene at Manhattan’s Intersect by Lexus for four months from 8 September. Starting out as a dishwasher with no formal culinary training, Kalika notched up a […]
Gustu’s latest culinary adventure at Salar de Uyuni salt flats
(Fine Dining Lovers) How is taking fine dining and gastronomy at 3,656 meters above the sea? Meet chef Marsia Taha from Gustu, now preparing meals at Kachi Lodge in Salar de Uyuni. First it broke the glass ceiling to become Bolivia’s first fine-dining restaurant that dealt with only Bolivian ingredients in an initiative spearheaded by Claus […]
20 of the best food tours around the world
(The Guardian) Feast your eyes on these foodie walking tours, which reveal the flavours – and culture – of cities from Lisbon to Lima, Havana to Hanoi. (Here, I wrote Bogotá and Buenos Aires.) Bogotá “This is where Bogotá’s top chefs come shopping,” says Foodies Colombia guide and chef Juliana Salazar, browsing Paloquemao market’s stalls for fruity […]
50 Hours in Buenos Aires
(The World’s 50 Best blog) As Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants gets ready to head to Buenos Aires City, local expert Sorrel Moseley-Williams shows us around and gets to grips with the city’s essential eats. From coffee to cocktails, steak to shrimp and plant-based lunches, we have your long weekend all covered off. When contemplating eating out in Buenos […]
The Best Times to Travel to Machu Picchu
(The Points Guy) Tucked high into the Andes, in Peru’s Sacred Valley at 7,970 feet above sea level, the mysterious Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is an architecturally breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage Site and absolute South America bucket-list must. Constructed around 1450, this vital religious, political and administrative center was abandoned some 130 years later when the Inca empire […]
Encuentro con Mauricio Couly
(AUREA) La conversación con Mauricio ‘Tony’ Couly Ventimiglia arranca con un piropo food porn que hace saltar el ritmo del corazón de esta fanática del queso: “Te vas a volver loca por el cheddar azul que estoy haciendo.” Todo indica que se viene una gran conversación apasionada. Cocinero por profesión, quesero por vocación, Tony nació […]
Lima has a new generation of foodies – and they’re driven by sustainability
(The Independent) Latin America’s food capital Lima is known for award-winning fine-dining restaurants Central, Maido and Astrid & Gastón, but a new wave of highly trained young cooks are opening their first establishments and moving away from elaborate multi-course tasting experiences. Cutting back on the likes of fancy white table cloths, the next generation is focusing on sustainable Peruvian produce and succinct daily […]
When Wolfgang Puck Went to South America
(New Worlder) With a constellation of Michelin stars under his belt, a string of restaurants around the world, including Spago in Beverly Hills, and as the man responsible for feeding Oscars winners (and losers) at the annual gala dinner for two decades, Wolfgang Puck’s CV has chartered many corners of the world. Except South America, until now. […]
King crabbing in the Beagle Channel, Argentina
(Rough Guides) “Keep pulling,” shouts fisherman Sergio Carrera, to make himself heard above Patagonia’s ubiquitous wind. “There’s about 80 more metres of rope to go!” On board a small inflatable craft in the middle of the Beagle Channel, I’m about to catch my first centolla (king crab or spider crab), an orange-hued decapod crustacean prized by chefs […]