Other food travel
CategoryDad’s been to Iceland
Latest stop has been Iceland, researching my book and a story for the Guardian.
Good grief, what a landscape: one minute you are in the Sco..Helsinki food scene: Moomin on up.
Next stop was Helsinki.
(The parliament: incredible to think that it was made from icing sugar almost 100 years ago).
The flagship branch ..
Malaga malady
Deepest apologies for not having posted for so long. I have been travelling a fair bit in the last few months. First was Malaga.
It's alway..Berlin food scene
I was whisked off to Berlin for a few days by Lissen this weekend. I'm ashamed to admit to any kind of gastro-prejudice, but I didn't hold..
- Japanese Food: Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Okinawa, etc
- Japanese Food: Tokyo
- Michael Booth
- Michelin restaurants
- Other food travel
- Restaurants: Japan
Japanorama
Chocolate sushi
Just a quick postscript to my post in the Guardian's Word of Mouth blog which was about what might replace sushi in light of declining fis..
In the court of the ramen king
If you ask me what was the most pleasant surprise about Japan – apart from how cheap it was when we were there (thanks to a fortuitous exc..
- Cooking
- Japanese Food: Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Okinawa, etc
- Michael Booth
- Other food travel
- Restaurants: Japan
- Wasabi
The truth about wasabi
I’ve always been fascinated by wasabi which, up until I started travelling to Japan, meant the sweet, fiery green paste served in a pea-si..
Obligatory asparagus food blog post
Spotted these little beauties in my favourite Paris market the other day. They are wild asparagus. No, I've never seen them before either ..
- Fugu
- Japanese Food: Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Okinawa, etc
- Michael Booth
- Other food travel
- Restaurants: Japan
Fugu, glorious fugu
Shimonoseki is Japan’s fugu town. You've probably heard about fugu – it’s the fish that nearly killed Homer Simpson (after his long dark n..