When author and former Paris resident, Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen was first diagnosed with cancer, she was far away from home, some 3,626 miles to be exact. She'd lived in Paris for over 15 years, her adopted home, until a new opportunity prompted her family to move back the the United States. However, just ten days into her transatlantic move and new...

Picture it – you’re a road-weary traveller on your way to the capital where you can petition the local lord. You’ve been on the king’s road all day, riding your trusty horse through rain and shine and as night is falling, you find yourself at the way-stop, an inn just off the path. You stable your horse and trudge through...

Whilst I do take eggs seriously when it comes to eating them, like any other foodstuff, I love to investigate the origin of what we eat and why we eat it, including topics such as ’20 fun facts about eggs’. I don’t know why, but I spend time once a month teaching primary school children about food, its healthy qualities...

One evening last week, when I was incredibly hungover and already feeling more than slightly delicate I was brutally attacked. Not physically. It wasn’t even a personal attack with words. But someone who had travelled from America moaned about how hard it was to get vegetables in your diet in the UK. and for some reason that cut me deep. ...

The UK isn’t known for it’s excellent farming and exotic crops. But, that doesn’t stop the British schooling system from trying to educate children about food and farming at a young age. And I'll be honest, ‘educate’ is a bit of a push, but they tried their best.  I’m not sure whether this happens in other countries across the world,...

If you are like me, you may have a penchant for eating quickly. You may have had people, specifically a waitress in a Toronto hotel, comment that you are ‘really fast at eating’. No, I have not let that comment go. My point is, whenever I have something delicious, I often wish there was just more of it. However, if...

Being a poor student living on the scraps of a student loan and a part time job was definitely not one of the highlights of my life. Although I wasn’t big into partying, the general consensus was that whatever money you did have went on vintage clothing and questionably cheap vodka. It was then that the leftover pennies would go...