WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BEGIN?
Four ways into Foodie Goes Travel.
The Journal brings together essays, encounters and observations from Umbria and beyond. Some stories begin with food or hospitality; others with architecture, memory, migration or an ordinary detail that changes the way a place is understood.
There is no single route through it. Begin with what interests you.
A landscape shaped by water
A hotel shaped from within
A restaurant where one becomes many
A life between Umbria and Asia
Living Within the Walls
Hakka architecture is often remembered for its extraordinary forms. Travelling from the circular tulou of Fujian to the ancestral houses of Dabu revealed something more interesting: how architecture once organised family, protection, education and life across generations.
Three Curries with Angkrit
In his private kitchen in Bangkok, MasterChef Thailand winner Angkrit and I cooked green, red and yellow curries. Among his collected objects, with a vegetable vendor stopping at the door, we shared stories of London, life in Umbria and the Hakka food I had encountered on a recent journey to my family’s villages in China.
The Places We Are Taught to Want
Luang Prabang, Umbria and the way travel culture teaches us which places to desire—often before we have encountered them ourselves.