Epicurean Traveller

Aleksandra Winters shares healthy, balanced recipes inspired by her travels.

What happens when scientists, anthropologists, geographers, chefs, artists, photographers and videographers are thrown into the Amazon jungle to fend for themselves? It’s a question that…

In Tasmania, the locals maintain that Cradle Mountain is the centre of gravity. Sooner or later, they say, people are drawn to the serrated mountain in the northwest and the wild beauty that…

Ice cream often evokes memories of slurping cones on the beach in summer, or for some, melted messes not eaten soon enough. Mixed into milkshakes, eaten in a ‘sandwich’ or served in a…

As the world grows, at the same time it becomes smaller. We have reached a point in the developed world where everything is available almost everywhere, often at the touch of the ubiquitous…

A wild party is needed to create wine. One drop of fermenting grape juice may have 5 million yeast cells. When the conditions are right in the vat, they start to sway. They chomp through the…

Crete is a land of legends, and legendary hospitality. One sublime summer evening in Elounda, we were treated to both. Our Greek friend and host at Solfez Villas, Nikolas Lygeros, was…