Food writer and broadcaster Marlena Spieler
- 21.12.05 Roving Feast: An American French Fry in Paris
- When in France, eat the fries: delicious!
- 21.12.05 Roving Feast: If life gets you down, go to Umbria!
- If everything goes wrong and you are dismayed to find your life not worth living, just go to Umbria! Within 10 minutes, 15 max, you'll find yourself full of the joys of life once again. And it only gets better: soon you'll be eating porchetta, and lentils with sausage!
- 21.12.05 In a shepherd's hut, in an olive and lemon grove, in greece!
- I'm in a shepherd's hut in the middle of an olive and lemon grove, on the Greek island of Zakynthos. Outside my window is a lovely goat, tethered to an olive tree, munching on tender leaves and branches that have just been pruned as part of the harvesting. Its the end of the harvest, and the fresh oil is fragrant and yummy; this morning i put up a basket of salt-cured olives; this afternoon we will lunch on horta, the wild greens that we picked in the fields. Delicious things we've eaten: eggs cooked in fresh olive oil, tender braised potatoes with pork and lemon, and also salads: rocket, radish, cucumber, green onion, or shredded romaine mixed with walnuts, garlic, pickled red onion slices and a little chopped parsley, lashings of lemon and extra virgin everywhere! rough sour wholewheat bread with everything! and galatoboureko for dessert: custard layered with filo and drenched in honey.