These challenging and unprecedented times have fostered resourcefulness and resilience amongst us all. Stuck at home, we have been forced to think of creative ways to recreate our holiday experiences, letting our imagination wander instead of our feet: for us, the best (and perhaps only!) way of travelling right now is to take a culinary journey through cooking!
Emma: “Last term, my housemate and I attempted to cook an authentic paella that would do justice to Spanish cuisine, something we’d been dreaming about enjoying in sunny Barcelona. Realising that re-creating that experience through cooking it ourselves was likely to be the closest we’d get to actually visiting Spain this year, we were determined to make our Spanish night a success. Armed with king prawns, paella rice, peppers and a range of spices, it was with surprising ease that we were able to concoct the very tastes of the Med that we’d been craving. After chopping, sauteing and mixing, the finished result was a