This is how the love women from a Moldovan village cooked Borscht, a beautifully coloured beetroot soup. Normally topped with cream and /or a boiled egg, a plant based version is easily adjusted.

It’s not threateningly cold on my French mountain as yet, but I have prepared myself. Not least because I have more talent for preparing Christmas dinners for birds than for people.⠀

This dense, mildly sweet, hearty rye bread is traditionally prepared over the course of 12 or more hours by placing the dough into covered pots and sinking these into geothermal springs. It’s sliced thin and served with smoked, cured, or pickled foods

Kimchi is a fermented food, which makes it an excellent probiotic. The same lactobacilli bacteria you find in yogurt and other fermented dairy products are also found in kimchi. These so-called ‘healthy bacteria’ in kimchi can help you maintain a healthy digestion.

For our Bread Project, we photographed and tasted delicious focaccia in Matera, Italy. When staying at our family house in France, I love to prepare this focaccia, an Italian flat bread made with yeast and olive oil and flavoured with herbs, out in the open in our garden.

On Saturday, It’s 'kicheri day' at our Duniya Education School in Varanasi, India. Almost 100 happy kids queue in front of the washing tub in the courtyard, to wash their hands and to grab a large metal thali plate from the basket, to get a big scoop of kicheri, dished out by cook Anju

This is an adjusted version of a recipe I noted down in Vietnam where they used sweetened condensed milk instead of coconut cream. I also added the 85% chocolate. You can even make a yellow version by adding some kurkuma! Or red with beetroot! Play around and enjoy.

Chapati is perhaps the most popular type of bread in India. Even very young girls bake them with the greatest ease on open fires or on a chulha and often laugh at my misshapen tryouts. It's not so easy to make a perfect, beautifully round chapati with the simplest of ingredients!

Badam doodh (almond milk) is a popular Indian drink where almonds are blended with milk and flavored with saffron and cardamom. Prepared the traditional way, it’s made with whole cow milk and quite a lot of sugar, which makes it not only rich in texture, but for sure also in calories.