Belgium was the first place we travelled after the pandemic, having cancelled a previous trip in 2020. One of my most vivid memories of that vacation was attending a chocolate making class. Heading into this assignment, I knew one thing for sure: I was going to make chocolates again.
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Assignment 140: Faroe Islands
“There aren’t a lot of Faroese food blogs,” Eric remarked, as he trawled through online resources in an effort to build a menu. Many of the recipes he did find were going to be impossible to make — stuffed puffin and fermented pilot whale blubber just wasn’t available at our local…
Assignment 137: Denmark
We’ve never been to Denmark, but we’ve explored several countries nearby, and there were definitely some familiar elements in Danish cuisine that hearkened back to our travels in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, and Estonia. I was excited to try my hand at another rye bread (they so often…
Assignment 134: Türkiye
From the moment his assignment landed in his lap, Eric knew he wanted to try his hand at Turkish ice cream. The dish is made famous by videos of tricky ice cream vendors flipping cones and scoops back and forth between themselves and waiting customers…
Assignment 132: Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
First and foremost, it must be said that the Isle of Man is quite separate from the Channel Islands. In fact, they are located on opposite sides of the not insignificant landmass that is Great Britain. We chose to group these two locations together as they…
Assignment 129: Estonia
Some years ago, Eric and I were sitting together in a tiny restaurant in the medieval area of Tallinn, Estonia. This was before Eric had ever conceived of the idea of Wooden Spoon Wanderer, but naturally undertaking this assignment brought me right back to that place, dunking bread…
Assignment 126: North Macedonia
Eric didn’t know much about North Macedonia, except that the country was part of former Yugoslavia, and that its name changed recently (to include “North”) due to a conflict over nomenclature with Greece. In starting his research, Eric imagined North Macedonian fare would be a mix of…
Assignment 123: England
We went to England in 2015, fulfilling a lifelong dream of Eric’s to see a country he had long been fascinated with. We enjoy many British things in our daily lives, including British TV shows, cryptic crosswords, and cricket. English food, though, apart from fish and chips, has…
Assignment 122: Ireland
One in seven Ontarians has Irish roots (including me — arriving at Dublin airport on a 2015 vacation, Eric exclaimed: “Everyone looks like you!”), so it’s not surprising that Irish flavours are familiar and readily available. Every town has at least on Irish pub offering a menu of…
Assignment 118: Latvia
Eric has done quite a few Eastern European assignments, but it had been a while. He started his research on Wikipedia, then went searching for recipes, both online and in our Wooden Spoon Wanderer library. Latvian menus typically feature a lot of meat, and for our pescatarian…
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