One Night In Ipoh Traveling long distances in the UK requires careful consideration of food stops. If you find yourself without food, and in desperate need of some but haven't done your research, I'm afraid you'll probably be subject to one of our service stations. Pray it's one of the new ones because if it isn't. God help you. Maybe I'm being a bit too dramatic but my last experience of a service station on the A1 was not a good one. My choices were McDonalds, Costa and another shop offering 'home cooked' and 'healthier' food options so I opted...
Middle East in Melbourne Summer 2014, in the middle of an 18 month trip around Asia, Australia and New Zealand, I worked in a little café in one of the suburbs of Melbourne. The café was in a Jewish area and was owned and run by an Israeli family. I was lucky enough to get the chance to work in the kitchen alongside a great chef and teacher who taught me loads about cooking and Middle Eastern food. Every morning we prepared falafel, hummus, tahini sauce, schug (ridiculously hot chilli paste) and kebabs. We painstakingly chopped cucumber and tomato into tiny...
