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Fiona Sims

Iowa City, London

Food, Wine and Travel Writer at Freelance

Fiona Sims is an Isle of Wight & London based food, drink & travel writer, and editor. Author, The Boat Cookbook, Bloomsbury https://t.co/C3RQA50a3o

Articles

  • Feb 21, 2025 | cluboenologique.com | Jacopo Mazzeo |Fiona Sims |Nina Caplan |Jasmine Aum

    It may be the oldest demarcated wine region in the world but the Douro Valley has only welcomed significant numbers of tourists relatively recently. Now visitors to Portugal and its two popular main cities of Lisbon and Porto are becoming aware of the beauty that awaits them should they take a trip from the coast to follow the Douro River inland.

  • Feb 20, 2025 | yahoo.com | Fiona Sims

    This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “I never liked Modica chocolate. I thought it was just a tourist product with many defects,” says Simone Sabaini. “As soon as I started living here, I understood why I didn’t like it and set about trying to make it better.”Modica’s crumbly, grainy chocolate isn’t to everyone’s taste.

  • Feb 20, 2025 | nationalgeographic.com | Fiona Sims

    This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “I never liked Modica chocolate. I thought it was just a tourist product with many defects,” says Simone Sabaini. “As soon as I started living here, I understood why I didn’t like it and set about trying to make it better.”Modica’s crumbly, grainy chocolate isn’t to everyone’s taste.

  • Feb 19, 2025 | cluboenologique.com | Joel Harrison |Nina Caplan |Fiona Sims |Joel Hart

    As part of our partnership with The Institute of Masters of Wine, we asked current candidates to submit to us an article dedicated to a person, place or particular drink discovery that helped first ignite their passion for wine – and we were blown away by the submissions. Here, we publish the first of two personal essays that most impressed the Club Oenologique editorial team. This one is written by California-based student Jasmine Aum.

  • Dec 3, 2024 | decanter.com | Fiona Sims

    Celebrity chef José Pizarro carefully places his traditional Christmas centrepiece on the table at the Bermondsey home he shares with his psychotherapist husband Peter. You can forget about turkey, though – it’s a whole roasted sea bass stuffed with lemon and bay leaves sitting on saffron-infused potatoes. And it’s not actually Christmas, of course, but a photoshoot held in October for Decanter’s Christmas food and drink feature.

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18 Jan 24

RT @NigelBarden: Nearly #FoodieThursday time when I’ll be dishing up a ‘Cod, Chorizo & Chickpea Stew’ from ‘The Boat Cookbook’ by @2fionas…

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3 Nov 23

RT @LouellaBerryman: Do I need more cookbooks? No. Will I continue to accumulate them? Yes. Reccos from me, @winematcher, @RachaelHogg an…