I was thrilled to draw Bermuda as my next assignment, knowing from experience that my menu would include a few choice seafood-laden dishes, and most importantly, a rum cake. Eric and I spent a handful of days on the island a couple of years ago and loved…
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Assignment 92: Sweden
Oh, that Wooden Spoon Wanderer insecurity…that feeling in the middle of an assignment when a little thing goes wrong and derails your whole process. Eric was plagued with it during this assignment. He was working with some ingredients he had never used before, and one of his dishes…
Assignment 91: Bosnia and Herzegovina
This assignment followed Eric’s culinary journey to Moldova, and my expectations were confirmed when I saw that there was a great deal of crossover in ingredients and recipes between Moldova and Bosnia. The first few recipes I found were too similar to ones Eric had just done, but…
Assignment 90: Moldova
Eric has made several forays into Eastern Europe for this blog, but it had been a while since his last adventure into the region. He found gathering recipes was made somewhat challenging by the fact that most Moldovan blogs presented their information in Romanian…
Assignment 89: Cameroon
I would be lying if I said the prep for this assignment was anything other than chaos. Despite careful planning (I created a master list of ingredients and steps so I wouldn’t have to open my computer while cooking), my kitchen looked and felt like a disaster zone while…
Assignment 88: British Caribbean
When we first conceived the Wooden Spoon Wanderer blog, one of our first tasks was to create a list, as exhaustive as possible, of places we wanted to cook from. Most are sovereign nations, but others, like this assignment, are non-sovereign territories with a distinct culinary tradition…
Assignment 87: Malta
Malta sits at the crossroads of Italian, Middle Eastern, and North African cuisines, and as such has a fantastically diverse flavour profile that I was eager to explore.
Assignment 86: Marshall Islands
Eric went into this assignment expecting to struggle to find recipes, but was surprised to find enough resources to put together a menu. The Marshall Islands has a standard Oceanic flavour profile with some Chinese influence to it. Eric knew fish would feature, and opted…
Assignment 85: St Kitts and Nevis
It’s been over 25 assignments since we last visited the Caribbean, so I was looking forward to the fish and coconut I expected to find (and did find) on the menus of St Kitts and Nevis. Recipes were not easy to find, and I relied heavily on…
Assignment 84: Brunei
Location: South Asia Population: 459, 500 Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan Geography: Two disconnected pieces of land on the island of Borneo, mostly covered with tropical rainforest Language: Malay Signature flavours: Seafood, shrimp paste, chilli peppers, coconut, garlic, tamarind, ambulung, pandan The Menu Sayur Lodeh: A vegetable and shrimp curry with cabbage, carrot, and green beans,…
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