COOK THE WORLD

Somalia is to Africa what Lowestoft is to Great Britain: the easternmost point on the land. Somalia is situated in that part of Africa...

Iceland’s first settlers were Scandinavians in the 9th century, and much of the country’s cuisine today shares customs with traditional...

When you look for The Gambia on a map of West Africa, you might wonder whether you’re looking at a political map, or a river basin map....

It’s been a while since Kiribati! I cooked Kazakhstan’s dish and wrote it up in February, but I somehow failed to save the document,...

Pronounced: ki-ruh-bas. Kiribati comprises three chains of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: the Gilbert/Tunagaru Islands, the...

Despite only having spent 114 hours in Australia (Melbourne), I feel spiritually connected to our friends down under, something I...

A Van Halen song The canal Hats* A transcontinental country situated on the Isthmus of Panama, a land bridge spanning Costa Rica and...

Friends gather around the dining table on 25th January, the haggis is bagpiped in, and someone will recite “Address to a Haggis” to...

Traditional Lithuanian food is hearty; heavy on meat, dairy and potatoes. The dish that comes up on every list of Lithuanian food that...

Afghanistan’s cuisine takes elements from its neighbours: spices from India, herbs from Iran, and central Asia and Afghanistan have...

Ecuador is Spanish for equator. A fitting name for one of the world’s 13 countries through which Earth’s central line of latitude passes....

One night last week, I woke up at 4am and decided I was far too hungry for sleeping. I went downstairs, nailed a bowl of Bran Flakes, and...

Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and tiny little Djibouti make up the region known as the Horn of Africa. Djibouti is a 20 mile stone’s throw...

Mongolia is that space between Russia and China, a vast plateau of desert and grasslands, where nomadic peoples rode horses and...

Rwanda is a little land-locked country in the African Rift Valley and is affectionately known as the “land of a thousand hills”, the...

Back in 2019 when I first had the idea for Jen Cooks The World, one of Mrs S’s first responses was “what on earth are you going to make...

It’s only a short trip across the Persian Gulf from Iran to the country in the world that most looks like Darth Vadar. Kuwait has no...

This post is dedicated to the women of Iran Iran was known as Persia until 1935 when it was renamed to be more inclusive towards the...

One Friday night after work 10 years ago in a Cambridge pub, a group of friendly colleagues, who you could say were three sheets to the...

The Principality of Andorra is nestled in the Pyrenees between Spain and France. This tiny country shares cultural elements with...