THE Chinese celebrated their New Year last Monday, February 8, the second new moon after solstice. 

BEFORE the holidays every magazine, newspaper, food programme and TV ad was shamelessly luring us into temptation, encouraging us to overspend and overindulge in a myriad of different ways. 

I’M SITTING on the balcony of the View Point Hotel in Nyaungshwe overlooking the jetty where most of the skiffs and narrow timber boats leave for Inle Lake, one of Myanmar’s biggest attractions.

I’VE just discovered Somerset!

With 2015 behind us, I thought it might be fun and interesting to have a look at food trends for 2016.

LAST week I was asked a seemingly simple question by a food writer – which do you love most – Christmas dinner or the leftovers? Well now, doesn’t that get you thinking…