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Helen Hokin's September Picks
Travel Channel has teamed up with Foodtripper to make an exciting new show entitled ‘Foodtripper Miami’ to be broadcast this coming October (on SKY 251 and 252). Written and presented by Foodtripper’s Helen Hokin, the show explores how recent history has shaped the way Miamians eat today and why The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is key to the city’s newfound status as the USA’s hottest destination for food tourists.
Helen Hokin's August Picks
Foodtripper goes hunter-gathering in Northern Finland. We check in for a full inspection of the £5 million transformation of the Greenhouse Hotel in Bournemouth, sample the summer seafood menu at The Petersham Hotel in south west London, and go canal cruising in Burgundy. The Hungry Cyclist's back with a thrilling London tandem tour. And we have the latest on cookery and wine courses from Foodtripper's preferred partners.
Helen Hokin's July Picks
Foodtripper: The Collection has just launched. This boutique selection of the world's best cookery holidays brings global gourmet retreats direct to your fingertips... your very own delicious escape is just a click away. On Foodtripper TV, we’ve invited top chef Rowley Leigh to make the most of Spain's short-lived Picota cherry season, cooking up a classic clafoutis. And we have a fab holiday to Spain's Jerte Valley for one lucky individual.
Helen Hokin's June Picks
In anticipation of a long, hot, British summer I stay close to home dropping by Le Cafe Anglais where Rowley Leigh - just turned 60 - shares future plans for the restaurant and role as poster boy for the forthcoming Picota cherry season. Across town, at The Lanesborough, Heinz Beck's elegant summer menu is served. Go there for the chaud-froid Herbal infusion with tuna tartare and green tea sorbet - more Mediterranean gluttony than molecular gastronomy.
Helen Hokin's May Picks
Foodtripper met the most lauded chefs on earth at The World's Fifty Best Restaurant Awards. Taking 1st prize is Noma in Copehagen knocking El Bulli off the top spot and sending a ripple effect through the chart. Heston moves down to 3rd place. Hibiscus is in, by a whisker, at number 49 leaving the total number of Brits in the top 50 at a mere three. If you missed our live tweets on the night then start following us on twitter for future live updates.
Helen Hokin's April Picks
Travel this month, with volcanic ash clogging the skies, might be all but vicarious. But in anticipation of trips to come, we have three top dining spots in L.A., an expedition into the Khao Lak jungle to make a Thai green curry, and for Foodtripper TV, I travelled to Miami to meet the talented Clay Conley head chef of Azul at The Mandarin Oriental - arguably the city's most upscale eatery. Naturally.
Helen Hokin's Spring Picks
On the sun-drenched rooftop of the Betsy Hotel, Miami, Foodtripper caught up with the darling of the New York dining scene, three Michelin Star Chef, Daniel Boulud, about his plans for Bar Boulud, launching in London this spring. Watch the exclusive interview on Foodtripper TV.
Helen Hokin's February Picks
The glamorous and good convene this month on super sexy South Beach for the Miami Wine & Food Festival showcasing new dishes, ingredients and styles from some of America's most respected culinary personalities
Helen Hokin's January Picks
We swing by California, South Africa, Australia and the Caribbean in search of fresh food and winter sun.
Helen Hokin's Winter Picks
Jerry Beck of Wholefoods Market is talking turkey on Foodtripper TV.
Helen Hokin's October Picks
The days are drawing in but don’t hibernate - migrate! We follow the snowbirds to South Florida for food festivals, art and five top dining spots.
Helen Hokin's Top Picks
September's always a busy month for food travellers. The mellowing weather means ripening fruits, the autumn harvest and grape picking are just around the corner.
Helen Hokin's Top Picks
The Hungry Cyclist's back from a week of pedalling alongside the food obsessed islanders of Taiwan.
Helen Hokin's Pick of the Week
This week we have a star-spangled line up of features and ideas to get you planning for Independence Day in style.
Helen Hokin's Pick of the Week
Oh! to be in England. The weather’s fine and food festival season is in full swing. Here in London we await with greedy anticipation our own helping from the granddaddy of them all, Taste London.
Helen Hokin's Pick of the Week
Tom Kevill-Davies is The Hungry Cyclist. He agreed to let me interview him about cycling across the Americas and his new book, ‘The Hungry Cyclist’ on one condition: we talked as we cycled - on a 1960s tandem, through central London, in rush hour. Sure, why didn’t I think of that!
Helen Hokin's Pick of the Week
Years of food and travel writing have brought their challenges: scaling the Andes for ripe avocados; gulping down insects impaled on sticks in Beijing; brewing coffee over the campfire in the Rocky Mountains with real cowboys for company. OK, maybe that last one wasn’t so tough.
Helen Hokin's Pick of the Week
As hard as they might try, Foodtripper's seasoned travel writers have some way to go before they can match the distance covered by delivery vans shunting chandeliers, mirrors and imported rugs across country to our MPs second homes, as revealed last week.