Name: Emily Carter
Position: Digital Communications Manager
What is your favourite type of cuisine?
Although I have never been to Asia, I absolutely love Thai food. I just love the fresh, light, fragrant flavours; ginger, lemongrass, chilli, garlic – delicious! I recently attended a Thai cookery course where we learnt to make our own Thai curries from scratch, for a curry for 10 people we used 80 chillis (that’s a lot of chopping!). Now I can make some of my favourite dishes at home. I just need to get myself to Thailand now and taste the real deal!
What is the food you couldn’t live without?
That would have to be cheese. I had a year in Paris as part of my degree which was a dream come true – cheese and wine evenings were a bit of a favourite way to spend time with friends. It’s great if you get each of your friends to bring along their favourite cheese, then you get a better variety and someone might introduce you to one you’ve never tried before. When it comes to cheese, the smellier the better for me – I absolutely love a good blue cheese so a stilton or dolcelatte will always have me reaching for it first with some fresh baguette or one of our yummy Crackers for Cheese .
This month’s competition, we are talking about people’s favourite holiday eating experiences – what’s yours?
A few years ago I visited Olu Deniz in Turkey; an absolutely beautiful resort with a renowned turquoise coastline (great photos when we went paragliding!). One night we went to a local fish market in Fethiye, highly recommended from both other people staying at our accommodation but also the locals. A short, noisy bus ride took us to this fish market enclosed by tall white walls – in the center there was a variety of fishmongers where you chose, weighed and paid for your seafood. Then, a few yards away, surrounding the fishmongers was an array of small restaurants – you presented your seafood to them, paid about a fiver and got your fish cooked, tailored to your taste – King Prawns cooked in white wine and butter for starters, BBQ’d seabass for main with a salad and fresh bread and a carafe of local wine – perfect! Such a shame we only found this gem on our last evening!
WIN A WEEKS BREAK IN BRITTANY!
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR ENTRIES. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY - GOOD LUCK!
This month, thanks to our friends at Holiday France Direct, we are offering you a weeks break for up to 6 people in a self-catering cottage in Brittany. To enter this month's competition, just tell us you favourite holiday food experience.
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Comments (607)
Add a commentAngie from Murton, Durham - 30th Aug 2011
ReportOn holiday in Vietnam we took part in a cooking class, cooking all of the fresh foods straight from the local market was an experience I'mm never forget and eating my creations was even better, I came home with so many ideas it has totally changed my cooking and eating style!
Maralyn from 23 Elder Lane, Griffydam, Coalville, LE67 8HD - 29th Aug 2011
ReportA picnic in France is really the best, Fresh bread and fresh cheeses, You really are blessed. Straight from the Market, it tastes really nice, And eaten outside, well, it's all gone in a trice. Wash it down with some wine from the region you're in, Be it Red, White or Rose you can't fail to win!,,
Elizabeth - 29th Aug 2011
ReportI'll never forget the Les Argeles Park Paella Night, they made it up in the open air over firey embers, they added bucket loads of every ingrediant found in a paella, and they mixed it round using shovels..IT TASTED GREAT!
Natalie - 29th Aug 2011
ReportMy most memorable food experience was in Koh Samui thailand, I was on my honeymoon and we went to a restaurant on the beach where they cooked the fish literally fresh from the sea on an outdoor grill. We had some wonderful fish including lobster and giant prawns, it was absolutlely delicious.
Nicola - 29th Aug 2011
ReportSitting outside my auntie's front garden in Portpatrick with a salad and local Drummore potatoes. Not very exotic, but my favourite!
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