1- Tacos de Tripa :
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
Given how abysmal Mexican food is in London, I always thought that it was a cuisine made up of remains from the back of the fridge. However, the tastes and textures of my first Taco de Tripa, sampled in Guadalajara changed all that forever. Crunchy deep-fried pig strip, fiery hot salsa and a dripping of lime juice is an almost unbeatable combination for any palate. I urge you to try one, you can thank me later.
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2- Gourmet Filipino Meal :
Location: Angeles, Philippines
We all have pre-conceived notions about certain cuisines, and until I dined with polymath Claude Tayag in 2007, I was convinced that Filipino consisted of little more than pork, deep frying and deep fried pork. This writer, artist and gourmand produced a series of dishes at his home in the Pampanga region of the country that managed to transform my opinion of Filipino food from dismissive to huge respect.
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3-Chicken Tikka Masala:
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
There are not many times that a person can say they have eaten a world-famous dish prepared by the person who created it. In 2009, while researching my second book, Eating For Britain, I met with Ali Ahmed Aslam at his restaurant, The Shish Mahal in Glasgow. There he prepared for me a dish of Chicken Tikka Masala, to which he has strong claims to be the inventor. It was as delicious as I imagined and one of my most memorable dining experiences.
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3-Peter Luger :
Location: New York, New York
I thought I had eaten steak before, but I was wrong. My first bite taken from a slab of medium rare porterhouse at Peter Luger, the world’s most famous steakhouse, in 1992 made me realize what I had been missing.
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4 -Railway Journey :
Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Great meals are not just about good food - they are also about context, and a simple meal shared on a train ride from Marrakech to Fez in Morocco was the perfect example, as my carriage companions insisted that I share their meal of roast chicken, dried fruits, cheese, and flat breads. As a stranger in a strange land, the hospitality was very welcome and made me determined to be the same to all I met from that day.
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5 -Jamon Iberico :
Location: Extremadura, Spain
If you have not eaten Jamon Iberico from Spain then you have not eaten. It is, to my mind, the finest food product on Earth, and in 2009 I was lucky enough to be invited to meet one of the greatest producers of this delicacy in the Extremadura region of Western Spain. Tasting slivers of the incredible acorn-flavored ham with its silky ribbon of fat at the source of its production remains one of my greatest ever eating experiences.
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6 -Fish & Chips :
Location: Rotherham, England
Everybody has a meal they think of when they are homesick, and for me it is traditional British fish and chips. And nowhere is this meal prepared better than in my hometown of Rotherham in Yorkshire. Big slabs of flaky haddock, in a beautifully crisp batter with finger-thick chips to help soak up all the vinegar which tradition decrees you should douse over your meal.
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