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Cairo Food Week
Cairo Food Week spotlights Cairo as a culinary destination, gathering the world’s best chefs and hungry travellers to the Nile once again.
Jun 22
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Bread is not a course, so please stop serving it as one.
Bread is only ever a side dish, no matter what you do it.
Jun 18
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Something For The Weekend #Lucky13
Chef’s Table loses its luster. Reeling from the 2025 Michelin Guide Dubai. Some stonking good Substack reads. I’m off to Veneto!
Jun 1
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May 2025
Tiff's Table
A supper club that brings farmers, artisans and the eaters who love them closer together, season by season.
May 14
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Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda: It's What Dreams Are Made Of [Archives]
There are very few restaurants where I daydream about going back. Lido 84 is one of them. Hell, it may be the only one.
May 7
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Ristorante Lido 84, Lake Garda: It's What Dreams Are Made Of [Archives]
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April 2025
Something for the Weekend #12
In this issue: our 10-year anniversary in Dubai! Caribbean food inspires me to cook more. Dubai's best French fries? JLT's still got it. April's eating…
Apr 27
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Al Naqa Lao Kebab House, Neighbourhood Food Hall, Dubai
It’s the Bib Gourmand that Dubai deserves, but may never get.
Apr 23
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Al Naqa Lao Kebab House, Neighbourhood Food Hall, Dubai
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Ascending God's Rooftop Pt 3: Giani da Dhaba
No Himachal Pradesh journey would be complete without a dhaba pit-stop--a fulcrum of every day life.
Apr 16
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Ascending God's Rooftop Pt 3: Giani da Dhaba
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March 2025
Something for the Weekend #Elevenses
The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
Mar 30
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Social media is a popularity contest, not an honesty box.
Virality and sensationalism create performative food influencers aching to be popular, and leaving honesty in the dust.
Mar 23
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Incentives Corrupt Honesty
Let's talk about the root of all evil with food influencers. "Honesty" is a symptom but to cure, you must treat the disease.
Mar 12
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February 2025
Honesty is not the problem. It's not even the start.
Food cognoscenti eat their own kind. Again.
Feb 19
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