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Botswana
Botswana is apparently best known at the moment as the setting of Alexander McCall Smith’s Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency, though it’s better known amongst economists as one of Africa’s great success stories – an anomaly of free elections and … Continue reading
Bhutan
Bhutan – after Tibet, probably the most remote and inaccessible place on earth, a place so keen to limit tourism that it costs $100 a day just to set foot in the country and famously measures its national success in … Continue reading
Belarus
For Belarus, we cobbled together four things. Drankini, the Belarussian national dish; some sour cream with chopped, marinated herring and raw onion to accompany it; red cabbage, always a good accompaniment to anything from the Russias; and for authenticity some … Continue reading
Bangladesh
The mere thought of Bangladesh always rather worries me. With the exception of Tuvalu it seems, as a country, the most object lesson in the immediate downside of climate change staring us in the face. Most of the country is … Continue reading
The Bahamas
We had to cook our Bahamian meal twice – not because it was so delicious we couldn’t resist (although it was very tasty) but because the camera failed on the first attempt. On attempt one, we cooked tilapia fillets marinaded … Continue reading
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Australia
Somehow we’re already at the third-to-last of the As, Australia. There are Australian bars aplenty in London, and a couple of restaurants that allege to be Australian too. Somewhere in this city we could easily find ourselves real examples of … Continue reading
Argentina
The thing about my favourite Argentinian restaurant in London – the newish Gaucho on Charlotte Street – is that it’s in the basement of my old office. Once upon a time, back in 2004, there was a fad amongst newspapers … Continue reading
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
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
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
Mange Two 