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Fish and Chips – Tom Aiken

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Even though the English have been the invaders rather than the invaded  since 1066, their culinary tradition wasn’t really affected and remained essentially English. They sealed themselves off  from the rest of the world to …

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Deep-fried fish and deep-fried chips has always been the junk food of the English and something that has, thankfully, become very popular amongst the new generation of English.  Potatoes didn’t arrive in  Europe until the …

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The word, scone is probably derived from the Middle Dutch word schoonbrood (meaning fine white bread) and it was used in the Scottish language long before it was even known in English. The original scone was round …

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Steak and kidney pudding differs from a pie in that it’s made in a deep dish and not a flat pie dish -it’s made by enclosing diced steak and kidney chunks in gravy with a …

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Gordon Ramsey Makes Dim Sum, Part 2

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This dish originated near the border of Qinghai and Gansu, in the land known as Amdo where the 14th Dalai Lama was discovered at the age of two. He was born Lhamo Dhondup on the …

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It’s common cause that the ancients passed through the Tibetan Plateau at least 20,000 years ago but archaeologists have recently discovered that humans probably passed through the region around 500,000 years ago when India was …

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The people of Tibet are strong, and adaptable due to the harsh environment in which they live, but they are also extremely warm and hospitable and are always quick to invite visitors into their homes …

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High on the Tibetan Plateau in the shadow of the Himalayas neither crops nor livestock are exactly plentiful and the predominantly Buddhist nation doesn’t have too much of a choice when it comes to choosing …