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Inspired recipe: Simple and Fresh 5 minute asparagus with Parmesan and lemon
In London, as in many big cities, there is a special kind of grocer who sits patiently behind a plastic table crammed into the smallest of urban spaces. On his table are stacks of plastic bowls filled with a constantly changing variety of fruits and vegetables, and even the occasional egg or cured meat.
He is the vegetable bowl guy, and for one dollar, you can have whatever is in the bowl.
If you play your cards right, you will come away feeling the victor, like you have absolutely cheated the system; like you have stuck it to the big grocery chains and those cutesy boutique produce shops… And you can accomplish this between the train station and your house.
Today, for one dollar, the vegetable bowl guy will sell you:
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Hurry up and register for the Citroen Master Chef Pop-up event here.
Most of the time, food is best left simple; where a chef’s job is to simply not mess up the bounty and the bright flavours that nature has delivered. But sometimes, food wants to be fussed with and the Chef is called to draw upon a conjuror’s knowledge of food behaviour and taste science to make a meal a truly unique event…
I’m just outside of London, in one of those close-in suburbs of green parks, cool air and open sky that – though only 15 minutes from central London – feels like a time-trapped village in Somerset. The noise is gone, the people walk at a normal pace and the houses are all stately, white stone affairs set back behind gravel driveways and green hedges.
I am inside one of those stately affairs, sat at a long wooden countertop, surrounded by a grip of hungry food writers, staring through steam and dry-ice fog as MasterChef winner Tim Anderson deftly wields his tools to conjure up a sampling
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Inspired recipe: Simple Puglian Pecorino and Arugula Frittata
In the sun bleached seaside town of Polignano a Mare in Puglia, Italy, there was a well-dressed, slow shuffling old man who wore a pink carnation in his lapel and spent the cool part of the afternoon painting messages of philosophy on the odd surfaces of wood and metal on the ancient buildings. The old man carried a small wooden chair over his shoulder and would place it wherever he pleased to sit and contemplate. I saw him during the hot part of the day in the shade, watching life go by, reading the newspapers, or the classics, or contemporary literature. He seemed determined to always be learning and sharing.
The old man had a lot to say.
Most of the times I ran into him, he was holding a long brush, stooped over his small can of black paint. But whenever anyone – and I mean anyone – paused for a moment to watch him, they were captured, reeled-in, and ensnared in intense conversation
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“When I stared out the terminal window at the silver American Airlines Boeing 777 that was going to fly me non-stop to London, I gathered my thoughts and tried to conjure up a description of my career break mission. I gave up and instead just tried to picture how I would feel when I came back…I have yet to come back.”
Those are the opening lines of my story
Wow… has it really been a full year since I quit my day job, got on a plane to Africa for a 1-month Safari and set off on my Food Pilgrimage?
If you’ve been reading my weekly Food Pilgrimage stories of travelling in pursuit of culinary bliss, you know what came next. You know it’s been an intense year of ups and downs, lessons and surprises. But so many amazing experiences have come out of it. This week, I was honored to have my story published by MeetPlanGo.
Thanks so much to the crew at Briefcase to Backpack for inviting me to share my “novelized” version of the story of this first year.
If you’ve ever considered traveling long term, taking a sabatical or career break, I highly recommend you bookmark B2B and subscribe to the MeetPlanGo newsletter. The resources are a veritable road map for finally taking that “journey of a lifetime”.
I hope you enjoy my story. If you like it, shoot me a comment. I’d love to hear from you. It’s Rainy and damp here in London, so I could use the lift!
All the best to everyone who has followed the adventures to this point.
Your support has made this an amazing year
~Sage
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" A good meal shared with good people leaves the soul craving little else." ~Sage