Journalist + sommelier / Argentina + Latin America
(The World’s 50 Best) While a political science degree led Laura Hernández Espinosa to undertake diplomatic missions, her heart knew better and she ditched embassy life to fuse her real passions: social development and gastronomy. Since 2009, the head sommelier at Leo in Bogotá has also been executive director of FunLeo, a foundation set up by […]
(The Guardian) With the peso dropping 50% against the dollar, Argentina is affordable again, including characterful hotels and hostels in Mendoza, Patagonia, Buenos Aires and other hotspots. Hacienda de Molinos, Salta This 17th-century former governor’s residence is a comfortable stop-off on Ruta 40 through the Calchaquí valley in the rugged north-west. The hotel is reached […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) The Kolkata-born chef, best known for the 25-course emoji menu at his eponymous Bangkok restaurant, shares his shopping list. Check it out in November 2018’s Condé Nast Traveller.
(Turkish Airline’s inflight magazine) Where can you spend the morning browsing leather boutiques on South America’s most exclusive shopping avenue, catch a nail-biting polo match in the afternoon, and then devour a succulent rib-eye at a top steakhouse before relaxing in a stunning Belle Époque mansion? It could only be my city, Buenos Aires. Currently flying […]
A six-page feature in August 2018’s edition of Lugares, Argentina’s top travel magazine, where Gaggan Anand eats his way around Bangkok with me. Photos by João Wengorovius. In Spanish.
(The Independent) When Ana Roš is ensconced at her summer house tucked away in the Julian Alps in Slovenia, she’s usually on holiday, but this year the Slovenian chef – who appeared in season two of Netflix’s Chef’s Table – is using down time away from the burners to pen her first book. Roš whose fine-dining restaurant Hiša Franko made its debut in […]
(Selector) As we survey María del Carmen Toro’s fertile coffee, banana and avocado farm, the sun has started to lower and mist is slowly gathering in the valley. “The conflict was intense here,” she recalls. “Bombs went off all the time and ‘they’d’ come here at 1am, demanding we prepare them food.” The ‘they’ to […]
En Madrid le han dado el apodo ‘ponzaning’. Pero en Bilbao, alcanza con decir que salimos a comer pintxos, disfrutar de tapas acompañadas por copas refrescantes del blanco local Txakoli. Más allá de eso, los vascos guardan un secreto gastronómico adicional: el txoko. No es un circuito, al contrario, el txoko es un club privado parecido […]
(The Points Guy) The longest nation on the planet, Chile stretches for some 2,650 miles, bordered by both imposing mountain ranges and the lapping waters of the Pacific Ocean. As a result, Chile’s diverse landscapes form some of the world’s most spectacular scenery — and the South American country has become a bucket list destination […]
(N by Norwegian) Scarlet and mustard peaks, impossibly blue skies: the wine region of Jujuy may be small, but it has some of the highest – and most stunning – vineyards in the world. At more than 2,300 metres above sea level (masl), the area certainly leaves you breathless but my overriding memories of a recent trip […]