HONG KONG | Several years ago, I met Alan in Hong Kong. In his early thirties, homosexual, for over 10 years HIV infected and on daily medication. Together we crossed the city by bus and on foot, on our way to Mr. Lee

Another book in the Street Food series, full of enticing recipes and authentic photos. After my award-winning cookbooks Street Food India and Vietnam, I published Street Food Kosovo.

Isn’t it fantastic how bread, one of the oldest prepared foods in history and baked with only a few ingredients (usually flour, water, yeast, some salt), shows such a wide variety all over the world? In recent years we have seen many different breads being baked in the most beautiful bakeries and ovens.

In a time where everyone seems to agree that you need ‘a recognizable’ style, your Instagram feed should reflect that ‘branding’, I find this quote by Shamir Tharar, founder of @dishoom, so liberating: ‘Design can be a story’.

Working in support of the book ‘Borst Vooruit’ (a Dutch imagery, literally ‘Breast Forward’, meaning Be Proud, or Stand Tall), was a very intense and meaningful project for me.