For the first time in what feels like months, this afternoon there wasn’t an immediate pressing job that I had to do – plenty of things I should do, but nothing that should definitely have been done three hours ago.<\/p>\n
So I allowed myself a wander up to Camden market, where, I found, you really can eat – and I suppose buy too, although I very quickly get bored with shopping – just about anything in the world. <\/p>\n
But on a brisk winter evening it was the myriad of food stalls – the exotic, fragrant steam rising visibly from them – that really caught the eye, and the nose. There’s no greasy fish and chips here – indeed I didn’t see any chips at all – but a fascinating range of foods from around the world.<\/p>\n
I (gluten-avoider that I sadly am now) tried a form of Venezualan fast food that I had never previously encountered (no I haven’t been to Venezuala) – the arepa – cornbread (a recipe here<\/a>) – seriously yummy stuffed with cheese and shredded beef – so yummy I’ve even been looking into how you can buy the special flour required online<\/a>. (Or does anyone know of a specialist Latin American grocer in central London?) <\/p>\n There were also Japanese rice balls cooked on what looked like an old-fashioned gem scone iron that I’ve never seen before – and Thai, Malaysia, varying forms of Indian, Ghanaian…<\/p>\n If ony you could transfer this out on to the high streets. Why can’t you, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time in what feels like months, this afternoon there wasn’t an immediate pressing job that I had to do – plenty of things I should do, but nothing that should definitely have been done three hours ago. So I allowed myself a wander up to Camden market, where, I found, you really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}