Recipes – A Year Cooking the World

It’s really difficult to know where to start or how to approach this challenge, so I am going to have a bit of a practice run. For 2 weeks I’m going to see how long it takes to do my research, select the recipes, buy the ingredients, cook the recipe and then write the blog.

After several Google searches, I have a list of 196 countries. Yesterday I printed out all the countries & put them in a pot, except I seem to only have 195 (likely due to poor scissor use!) … so when I pick my last set of countries from the pot, I’ll find out which is the missing one and save it for the final recipe!

The 9 countries I’ve randomly picked from the pot to feature over the next 2 weeks starting from tomorrow (yikes!) are:-

Singapore

Iraq

Bhutan

Guinea

Central African Republic

Kyrgyzstan

Haiti

Cyprus

Panama

Inspired by a TED talk I recently listened to by Ann Morgan, I’ve decided to set myself a challenge. Two of my greatest passions are food & travel, so I am going to cook a recipe from every country in the world over the course of a year. Not quite Julie & Julia (one of my favourite films), but an exciting foodie adventure none the less.

I would like to think that I’m quite an adventurous cook, but the reality is that I stick to what I know, both in ingredients and recipes. So in order to broaden my culinary skills and experience .. this is my challenge!

I really want to ensure that I cook authentic recipes that originate from their respective countries, so I am appealing to my friends to help me ‘keep it real’ and if you know of or find any relevant recipes, please do share them with me.

Wish me luck!

Tag: Recipes

How to start?

The challenge