{"id":8093,"date":"2023-10-24T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schweboo.com\/beyond\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2025-02-08T03:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T03:55:51","slug":"recipes-by-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schweboo.com\/beyond\/recipes-by-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipes by location"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past 40 years, I have travelled the world and experienced different cuisines that I have tried to recreate at home. This meant talking to chefs\/cooks in their kitchens to get them to explain how they prepared their dishes. At home, I experimented to try to recreate their dishes. One lesson I learned very quickly was that getting hold of the right ingredients was key. This meant finding and exploring specialist grocery shops around west London, where I live. For most spices, I travel to Southall and buy in bulk. For Chinese, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean and Philippine ingredients, I travel to the Hoo Hing Supermarket<\/a> just off the North Circular. I also shop at the Thai Smile Supermarket<\/a> in Hammersmith,<\/p>\n

This ‘Recipes by location’ map shows a clickable marker for each of the geolocations tagged on the recipes on this website:<\/p>\n\n\n

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