Tuesday, 31 January 2017

The Challenge

We recently came across a blog by Sasha Martin, in it she tells the story of how her young family decided to travel the world by exploring the foods of different cultures. http://globaltableadventure.com/welcome/

Now this idea excited us!

We are both good cooks and enjoy sampling new food. So this challenge seemed to be the ideal opportunity to experience new cultures - many of which we will never be able to visit for ourselves.

Another thing that grabbed our attention was that on the first page of Sasha's blog she talks about Canadian food and actually cooks a dish from Nova Scotia - Hodge Podge! Now we have often seen this advertised in the autumn in local diners but we have never tried it. It was a sign that we had to proceed with this new adventure.

So I have printed a list of the 193 UN countries ("and by country we mean a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right" Pointless joke!) and we will work through them alphabetically cooking a meal each weekend sometimes just for ourselves but also, hopefully, for our family and friends.



So our first port of call will be Afghanistan - now I wonder what they eat there?