Q Zine

  This week a big number happened, without me even noticing it until tonight. I sat down to write some new recipes of countries still to cook here on Q-zine and I realised that my food blog had been visited 100 thousand times. Mostly by people I will never meet from all across the World. People hungry to see their food respected and showcased and people looking for the culinary roots of their ancestors and kin. Last century I was a young Head Chef in charge of a premier restaurant featuring French Nouvelle Cuisine   on the 25th floor of an iconic Hotel in Sydney (the photo I'm posting is of me rushing out of the kitchen service lift that linked my kitchen to the the basement fridges 26-27 floors below). Back then a seed was planted to crave real food stories, discover new ingredients and respect what I didn't know. On the 10th December 2011 (so 15 years ago this coming December), I decided to cook a meal from each of the 196 countries in the World and so this blog was born. It...