Friday, 23 January 2009

Kabulawayo?

So here's the rub, London is arguably the most multicultural city in the world. Amongst it's 7 million inhabitants there are communities representing well over 100 different countries and speaking around 300 different languages. What fascinates me most is the food that centuries of migration have brought the Capital. There's such diversity from the Brick lane bagels/beigels of 19th century Jewish immigrants, to the feijoada and churrasco of Brazil's recent arrivals.

I'm obsessed by ethnic food and I love travelling, ideally I'd be meandering around the world from kitchen to kitchen; however as an indebted graduate currently struggling to find gainful employment, I'm boracic. Instead I've decided to explore what's on my doorstep, I want to see just how multicultural London's food is, so I've set myself a challenge.

There are currently 193 sovereign states (countries) in the world, I'm going to try and eat a meal from each of them in London. Ideally I'll find a restaurant for each cuisine, but accepting that this might prove difficult (Vatican City?) and having exhausted all avenues, I'll try and cook it myself. The plan is to attempt it alphabetically, from Afghanistan all the way through to Zimbabwe. Though if the opportunity arises to eat a Vanuatuan early on, this may go out the window. All in all I'm expecting this to take a couple of years but I'm really looking forward to it, and please if you are from any nation under represented in London (eg. Benin, Bhutan, Turkmenistan) do get in touch.

7 comments:

  1. Hey, that looks great dude!

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  2. the journey of a thousand meals starts with a single repast. good luck!

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  3. Alice told me about your website - What a lovely idea!

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  4. Awesome! Looking forward to following along!

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  5. I can recommend the Pasha Hotel/restaurant in Camberwell for Kazakh/Kygrgyz food (and drunken Russians) and Shepherds Bush seems to have lots of Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurants

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  6. great work! looking forward to see a "Brazilian" post...I'm a Brazilian-Italian in London and so far I failed to find and eat a good Brazilian food.
    take a look at my blog http://bonappetitbyfabio.blogspot.com/

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