Filoxenia and why the southern Mediterranean is the ONLY real foodie place in Europe.

My next book is all about eating in the Mediterranean, this is why...

Yesterday I saw a very funny map on instagram which I’ll paste below. It’s colour coded according to where on the European continent you’re most likely to be offered food. It tickled me because having travelled the past ten years to cook with grandmothers (from Poland, Germany and the UK right the way down to North Africa and across to the Levant), I te…