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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Antigua and Barbuda
Last night we explored our second country for which no plausibly dedicated restaurant could be found in London, Antigua and Barbuda – a Caribbean island chain with a population as tiny as Andorra’s which nonetheless churns at least one world-class … Continue reading
Angola
Last week, Seamus started researching Angolan restaurants in London. If you’ve looked at any of the other ‘eating the world’ blogs, you’ll notice that they are quite hard to track down. While the situation didn’t seem to have improved dramatically, … Continue reading
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Andorra
Funny place, Andorra. Its system of government is a unique form of parliamentary co-principality, with the (elected) President of France and the (appointed) Bishop of Catalonia serving jointly as princes but with the actual government elected on the standard one-person-one-vote … Continue reading
Algeria
Seamus’ geographic knowledge is pretty impressive. I have no idea what I was doing during Geography lessons at school. Courtesy of Wikipedia, I have just learnt that Algeria – the tenth largest country in the world – is a North … Continue reading
Albania
We were only able to locate one Albanian restaurant in London and it was found in Maida Vale, an area that I’ve always assumed to be super posh. Given this assumption and the fact that Albanian night fell on a … Continue reading
Afghanistan
For the second step of our long culinary journey we found ourselves approaching a country rather better-known than (the disputed Georgian territory of) Abkhazia. Afghanistan – the fabled hammer of empires that had kicked the British out at the height … Continue reading
Abkhazia
I have to admit that I hadn’t heard of Abkhazia until the idea of eating the countries of the world in alphabetical order was presented; and, I wonder if a Georgian surrogate was particularly tactful, given that the territory is … Continue reading
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