If food be the reason to travel then book now. It’s a bit of a twist on Shakespeare’s famous words from Twelfth Night, but as we start to put Christmas well behind us, it’s time to start looking forward to making plans to travel in the future. Looking back to our first post, one of the reasons we like to travel is to experience the fantastic variations in good food on offer round the world.
Food offers a unique insight to the history and culture of a region or country. The empanadas pictured above were first documented in Galicia in North West Spain 100 years before Twelfth Night was written, but today they are a part of everyday cuisine in places as far apart as Argentina, the Philippines and the Cape Verde Islands.
Many other cultures have their variations on an empanadas, in the UK the pasty, in South Asia the samosa and in Russia the Pirozhki.