Wherever you might be, the festive season is a time of coming together. Yet every part of the world brings to the table its own delicacies, rituals and customs, from a hunt for an elusive almond to a shared bucket of KFC…
All over the world canny chefs and cooks are rethinking the formula for eating out.
From changing restaurant residencies for visiting chefs to opening up farm tables to homes or backyards, such supper clubs offer intimacy…
There’s a revolution brewing in Paris. Fortunately it has rather less to do with guillotines and rather more to do with langoustines: the city’s bistros have been getting a makeover. As have the menus – forget seafood and…
Commercial flying is always that little bit more enjoyable when you’re surrounded by passengers who cut a neat and well accessorised dash down the aisle. Monocle settles in for a two-hour continental flight.
The towns of Blagoveshchensk and Heihe are divided by a river – and the very different routes the Russian and Chinese economies are travelling along. And there’s no doubt which town people want to live in.