One of life’s pleasure is looking at menus and recipe books and guessing how people discovered all the interesting foods they describe....

When writing my blog yesterday, I was thinking of the three fig trees in Chantrou. Every year, we impatiently wait for the figs to get...

Food is such a wonderful expression of culture. I do not know of any other cultural achievement that touches so many senses. We can smell...

Sailing from Montenegro to Croatia will get us close to a Greek legacy which is most enjoyable - Wine - provided you do not consume too...

Hi Everyone - back again with my daily blog on relevant and not so relevant stories and anecdotes for this year's sailing from Corfu to...

Are you as much a fan of Shawarma as I am? Good, lean meat with some pickled vegetables in on open sandwich? It is the only fast food I...

My intuition yesterday that Turkish Cuisine must have integrated dishes and recipes from all over the Middle East is probably correct....

Am very happy to confirm that our fabulous Turkish chef from last year will be with us again - as actually most of last year’s crew. To...

Do you remember my previous blog about the Roman fondness for wine? The upper class loved it for entertaining and their lavish banquets...

Most of you may not have heard of Garum, the fermented fish sauce Romans used as condiment. The Roman diet was not based on barley, but...

Now that we know that Romans consumed lots of bread, Garum, olive oil and Wine, what else did they eat? We know this rather precisely...

One of the delights of our cruise will be the fabulous wines now produced in Turkey. The Rosés start to match the French Rosés of the...

Yesterday, we discovered what staple food of Persian Sailors and Soldiers. Today, we are going to explore one of their condiments -...

Most of us think of Mediterranean food as a vegetable, fish and olive oil-based diet with plenty of fresh fruit and wine. Persian Archers...

Today would be a long and rocky sailing day. We knew that once we left the wind shield of Naxos the Meltemi would hit us again. Behind...

When having Lebanese mezze with my colleagues in the Marush on Edgware Road one day, I did not occur to me that I would be sitting in...

We are approaching Departure Day (Abfahrtstag) minus 11 (A - 11). A good reason to start making you familiar with some of the spices we...