It was dark as we pulled up to the Deira fish market. “Can you smell it?” asked Alex, our photography instructor and guide for the day. Sitting in the mini-bus, we shook our heads, sleepy-eyed from the 4am wake up call. He was so right when he said “You’ll smell it before you see it.”
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6 interesting foods she ate in 2015
Being a food blogger is so fun. It really is. But there is a dark side. The side where people expect you to know about every dish ever invented in the world, every restaurant in existence, every herb ever discovered, every flippin’ type of tea…you get the gist right? And in the instance you don’t know something
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What she learnt from one year of blogging
“Why not do something with all of these amazing meals we are eating”, she said. A little over a year ago, we were sitting at Creekside Cafe – going on and on about how delicious our meal was. Over cups of coffee and a few games of backgammon, the idea of this blog came to
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Competition – Afternoon tea for two at Fortnum & Mason
What better way to bring in the weekend than with a competition! We’ve teamed up with the wonderful Fortnum & Mason to offer one reader the opportunity to win a fabulous Afternoon tea for two. Fortnum’s delightful afternoon tea takes place in the Tea Salon located on the first floor of the stand-alone three-storey building beside Dubai Mall
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It’s a Rosy Christmas (A Home-made Body Scrub You’ll Wanna Eat!)
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas! My favorite time of year! The air is crisp, sweaters are finally appropriate, and as the year winds down, you start to recap the highlights in your head, think about all the people who made the year special, who stuck around, who cooked you food, laughed at your jokes, and made you feel like
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The big fat 3-0
I turned 30 yesterday! Woo hoo! I’m big on birthday celebrations, be it mine or those of loved ones, but I’d been dreading this day for close to two years. It’s officially the end of your 20s – the decade where you can be irresponsible and you’ll most likely get away with it. The decade
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What She Is Going To Say
We have known each other for what now feels like forever. Joined to the hip in high school, we shared our lunches both, the ones our mothers would pack for us in the morning and the ones we would buy at the school canteen. We needed two lunches in a day, see? We grew up and