Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(Fine Dining Lovers) A noble plant with millenary nutritional and medicinal values as well as deep ancestral ties, negative press about Erythroxylum coca has long outweighed the positive. Blame disparaging headlines on cocaine alkaloid, the pharmacologically active component found in fresh leaves that is extracted to produce cocaine. But, good news is on the horizon as […]
(La Nación) Queremos disfrutar de los mejores restaurantes del mundo pero la inflación y el tipo de cambio fluctuante realmente nos supera cuando llegamos al exterior. Pero hay que tener en cuenta que muchos chefs reconocidos llevan proyectos informales y populares a su portafolio fine dining, lo cual permite una experiencia gastronómica craneada por los mas grosos […]
(La Nación) Te compraste un pasaje en una aerolínea low cost, lo mandaste a tu tarjeta de crédito en 12 cuotas (obvio), viajaste en transporte público desde el aeropuerto hasta tu alojamiento pero, a pesar de todos los ajustes meticulosos, igual no te alcanza la plata para comer en un restaurante que rankea en la […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) Ana Roš, owner of Slovenia’s restaurant Hiša Franko, named World’s Best Female Chef in 2017, shares her top kitchen finds CHILLIES FROM THAILAND ‘Thai food has to be some of my favourite in the world – it’s colourful and intense, and goes from sweet to sour to spicy. While I don’t really […]
(Monocle) The Argentine chef on early inspiration, youthful rebellion, meaty domination and the tyranny of interfering waiters. In the September 2019 edition of Monocle.
(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.
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]