Why do you go on holiday to eat? That’s of course assuming you do go on holiday to eat. Though even if you don’t, it surely plays some part in your travel plans; to see the mosaics of Naples with a bag of mozzarella, the Taj Mahal with a fistful of dal, Gaudi washed down with gazpacho (my list would go on…).
What a terrific insight - it's the quotidian ubiquity, the commonplace experience of foods sought out as specialties back home, that says 'welcome, you are somewhere else entirely'. (That and the heat, the scents, the blue skies and the language of course). That one may eat a finer preparation of a Sicilian dish in Peckham is, as you say, a testimony to the internet and the information revolution we are so fortunate to live within. Cheddar in risotto flows naturally from such an insight. What will come next? I must wait.
What a terrific insight - it's the quotidian ubiquity, the commonplace experience of foods sought out as specialties back home, that says 'welcome, you are somewhere else entirely'. (That and the heat, the scents, the blue skies and the language of course). That one may eat a finer preparation of a Sicilian dish in Peckham is, as you say, a testimony to the internet and the information revolution we are so fortunate to live within. Cheddar in risotto flows naturally from such an insight. What will come next? I must wait.