As modernity threatens to mute the fabled storytellers of Marrakech, a wave of young Moroccans are keeping their nation’s candle burning in a new festival honouring a 1,000-year-old tradition.
, Updated 12 Feb 2021, 12:35 GMT
Nothing says Portugal quite like a pasteis de nata: a wobbly egg custard encased in layers of buttery pastry that manages to be both crunchy and soft at the same time.
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1. Fried peanut butter and banana sandwich
Too many of these and it’s a coronary waiting to happen but, once in a blue moon, it’s a finger-licking joy. This decadent slice of Americana was Elvis Presley’s preferred sandwich (although his contained bacon, too), and is famously served at Gladys’ Diner at Graceland, the King’s former home in Tennessee. While I’ve never been to the Memphis mansion myself, I discovered the recipe via Nigella Lawson, and it’s worryingly easy to make: spread a liberal amount of smooth peanut butter on one slice of white bread and mashed banana on the other, sandwich together and fry in butter until golden on both sides, then sprinkle with sugar. It’s even easier to eat.
, Updated 23 Dec 2020, 12:16 GMT
Huge skies and big, empty landscapes don’t get more superlative than in Namibia, where Africa specialist &Beyond offers the chance to admire the night skies with a resident astronomer.
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Connor McGovern, commissioning editor,
National Geographic Traveller
I’ve become far too well acquainted with the interior of my London flat this year, so it’s no wonder I’m longing for huge skies and big, empty landscapes. They don’t get more superlative than in Namibia, where Africa specialist &Beyond offers the chance to admire the night skies with a resident astronomer in the Sossusvlei Private Desert Reserve. Zero light pollution makes for world-class celestial sightseeing in this corner of Southern Africa, and all that desert seclusion and open space will make my home seem as far away as the stars twinkling above.