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In response to his intention to close Gaggan for good in 2020, Anand insists it’s best to “finish at your peak. Passionate about the technique and produce of Japan, Anand, and his friend and frequent collaborator, chef Takeshi Fukuyama, plan to establish a 12-seater restaurant, GohGan, in Fukuoka. While juggling Gaggan and a hectic travel schedule, Anand has been investing in the talent of his Bangkok-based staff and friends who run the restaurants Sühring, Gaa, Meatlicious and wine bar Wet. Kua Kling Pak Sod is a family-run chain and their grandmother makes family-style southern Thai food.

Our host for the night was TV personality Lorna Maseko, who also happens to be a superb cook. She praised Robertsons for their consistency in reinventing itself over the decades and after 95 years, they’ve still managed to surprise the lovers of their spices

This weekend I was introduced to a world I never knew existed – Slow Food. A movement that is, in a nutshell, anti-food waste, anti-GMO and anti-poverty

From atop of the ragged schist cliffs of Praia do Castelejo near Vila do Bispo in the western Algarve, a paraglider launches, with long strides and a short run-up. From up here, the Algarve, southern Portugal’s 200-kilometre stretch of coastline, seems remote and wild, a far cry from the bar-strewn streets and beach clubs full of sunburnt tourists we’ve come to expect from news reports. Many southern Portuguese descendants say that Moorish roots are evident in their skin and hair colouring, a darker hue compared to their northern Portuguese counterparts. Like it is with oranges, rice, coriander, carob, dried apricots, raisins, sugarcane and saffron in the Mediterranean, almonds are attributed to the almost 400-year Islamic reign of what was once known as Al-Gharb –