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Farida Zeynalova

London

Hairy food and travel writer at @NatGeoTravelUK & Food. Author of Berlitz Pocket Guide Baku. Specialist Travel Writer of the Year 2024 @TravMedia_UK. 🇦🇿🇬🇧

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  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Farida Zeynalova

    When my husband wanted to retire early, I agreed to do the same. But I hated retirement life, so I went back to work. I recently watched a webinar and was ready to push the "count me in" button and spend $3,000 on the program. However, I restrained myself because I value my marriage. Dave and I used to be in sync as entrepreneurs. We ran his accounting firm and my consulting company out of the same office. We went …

  • 1 week ago | nationalgeographic.com | Farida Zeynalova

    This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Anytime I see a watermelon with black seeds, it takes me straight back to my grandparents’ backyard in the South. I’d bust it open as a kid. Its juice would run down my elbows and I’d have to run away from the bees. One [set of] grandparents had a livestock farm with chickens, cows and pigs, and the other had a produce garden. They lived off the fat of the land. This was in North Carolina and Maryland.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Farida Zeynalova

    2 days agoAccording to my "Buy Again" list on Amazon, I'm in a lifelong relationship with peanut butter. Give me all the peanut butter cookies, ice cream, pies, bars, smoothies, pancakes, PB&Js, toast with bananas, ants on a log, and straight outta the jar. But I'd been limiting myself to dessert-centric …

  • 1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Farida Zeynalova

    This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I was 17 when I had garlic for the first time. I always equate it to The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy opens the door and the movie is then in colour. My parents were German immigrants, so we ate old-world German-style cuisine. Things like beef stew, chicken schnitzel, potatoes… there was zero spice. Even when we ordered Chinese food, once every three months, it was always the blandest thing on the menu.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Farida Zeynalova

    This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The United Nations has marked 21 March as International Nowruz Day, commemorating a holiday that sees millions around the world eating, dancing and furiously spring-cleaning the house from top-to-toe. Nowruz, meaning ‘new day’ in Persian, falls on the first day of the Persian calendar (around the same time as the Spring Equinox), and observes the end of darkness and the rebirth of nature.

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Farida Zeynalova
Farida Zeynalova @FaridaZeynalova
25 Mar 25

"I’m exactly like Anthony Bourdain — if he was afraid of everything." My interview with Phil Rosenthal, writer, producer and host of Netflix's Somebody Feed Phil, is now live for @NatGeoTravelUK https://t.co/BcNS5qMstf

Farida Zeynalova
Farida Zeynalova @FaridaZeynalova
21 Mar 25

Happy International Nowruz Day! It's my favourite holiday and I will not stop talking about it. From the Azeris and the Iranians to the Kazakhs and the Uzbeks, here's how different nations commemorate this ancient rite https://t.co/mwNLANWCH3

Farida Zeynalova
Farida Zeynalova @FaridaZeynalova
12 Mar 25

Oh, when the saz kicks in at 0:51 🥹

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Songfestival Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 @songfestivalaze

🇦🇿🤩 Our country's "Eurovision 2025" song "Run With U" was released! https://t.co/18FCD2b8ON