Dani Venn

You may have noticed that I have not blogged lately. It’s just that I have been very busy working in Thailand eating my body weight in new culinary discoveries, snapping photographs like a woman possessed at every produce market conceivable (even one that is built quite inconveniently on top of a railway track!) and learning [...]

One of the things I like about living in the country is the humble honesty box, it’s a practical system that upholds common decency, where farmers sell fresh produce on the side of the road and trust folks to pay for it via the honesty box. It makes me feel all warm and gooey inside, [...]

There are no words adequate to describe India. India is a sensory experience that must be felt. It’s the perfumed air of incense burning, it’s the medley of spices on your tongue, it’s the beauty of women draped in brilliant pink saris, it’s the incessant sound of blaring horns, it’s dodging mud, cow dung and [...]

I can’t get enough of curry. I would eat it for breakfast everyday if I could. I love the complexity of curries and how diverse they are within Asia and around the World. When I was I was growing up one of my favourite meals was mum’s ‘curry’ made up of minced beef sprinkled with Keens [...]