The World in 202 Meals

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1. Jonny wrote,

   I came through to your site from Tamarind & Thyme – I am intrigued by your blog as I had the same idea as you about a year ago and put a very rudimentary list together to try & kick start it all. I will email it to you if you would like to see it – it has links to reviews etc.

   I think I have about 50 different countries on my list – good luck in finding all 200+ – I hope you do it!

   Link | October 1st, 2008 at 9:06 pm

2. matthew wrote,

   Jonny,

   Yeah would love to see the list! If you already have a similar mission going perhaps we can join forces at some point.

   Welcome to the blog anyhow!

   Link | October 1st, 2008 at 9:59 pm

3. Robbie wrote,

   I seem to have a similar mission going too, though there’s one country I just keep going back to: Georgia. Is Tbilisi on Holloway Road on your radar? It’s a totally unique combination of Russian, middle-eastern and mediterranean flavours. It’s all about the starters.

   I’m already inspired to check out a host of the restaurants you’ve written about.

   Robbie

   Link | February 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 pm

4. matthew wrote,

   Robbie,

   Quite a coincidence but we had actually planned Georgian for our next meal! Looks like snow may get in the way of that this week but we’re looking forward to it. Have heard of Tbilisi although we were going to try one in South Kensington that’s been recommended.

   Glad we’ve inspired you anyway, and keep checking for the Georgian review.

   Link | February 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm

5. Andrew (APZ) wrote,

   Keep chewing through the world guys! Great job! And congratulation on hitting the No.1 spot in the Time Out listing of food blogs. At some point you may want to open a sub section listing some ‘national shops’ where DIY cooks can get ingredients (or ready made meals) to ‘travel the world’ from their own sofa/worktop.

   Link | February 24th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

6. Andrea wrote,

   Hi Andrew,

   Thanks, glad you like the blog. We are hoping to start covering great “international” shops to go to for ingredients, actually! It’s a bit more difficult because it’s not as easy to find out about these sorts of shops online, but we’ve spotted more than a few around London that would make great posts (like the Ethiopian grocery in Tufnell Park and the Vietnamese supermarket in Shoreditch). So I’m sure we’ll get to it eventually.

   Link | February 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

7. Krista wrote,

   If you’re every looking for company, I’d love to come out with you guys some night. Just let me know!

   Link | March 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

8. David wrote,

   With your mission you can’t afford any doubling-up as a group, but if any of you enjoyed the Georgian meal particularly, I’d recommend Tamada, the new restaurant in St John’s Wood/Kilburn, very very highly. I’ve reviewed it on London-Eating.

   As to Central Asian eating: there are no stand-alone Uzbek, Turkmen or Tajik restaurants in London, but you can probably consider (certainly) Uzbek cooking and arguably the whole area to be covered-off by the offerings at Dastarkhan and Pasha: plov (ideally meatless) is at heart an Uzbek dish (Kazakhs add meat to it!); beshbarmak is very Kazakh and manty are Kazakh/Kyrgyz, so eat those dishes for those countries but lagman, shashlik (kebabs); samsas and chiburiki are pretty much region-wide dishes so you can justify creating a meal around them for the three other nations.

   Hope this helps.

   Link | August 17th, 2009 at 10:36 am

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