Toyo Odetunde

Nov 20, 2024 | cntraveler.com | Toyo Odetunde

All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ask a Local is a series where we ask insiders to share their tips for the place they call home. Kwaku Yaro creates mixed-media portraits using cleverly upcycled wax prints, the blue-and-red checkered polypropylene bags ubiquitous across Ghana, and other urban materials.

Nov 20, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Toyo Odetunde

“You need three lifetimes to experience Tuscany,” says my guide, Gherardo Noferi. He smiles as I take a sip of full-bodied chianti. With seven Unesco sites (and one entry in the organisation’s “great spa towns of Europe”), more than 400 wineries, and connections to doyens of European art, such as Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, Gherardo is probably right about the region.

Oct 19, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Toyo Odetunde

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Smoky skewered meat, browned over flames, dipped into a zesty mustard at a dibiterie (grilled meat restaurant) in Dakar — or wrapped in newspaper and dusted with bright copper yaji spice amid the busy Lagos traffic. Yam or cassava pummelled into plush, stretchy mounds of fufu, dipped into Ghanaian kontomire or Nigerian esa — both stews of leafy greens, salted with crushed seeds and umami-rich fermented locust beans.

Oct 11, 2024 | cntraveller.com | Toyo Odetunde

“Well, snails just take dishes to the next level!” After a busy night tending to guests at his spanking new venture, Sael, chef Jason Atherton is still full of smiles. Jason has experimented with snails since his days at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze. However his latest paean to the high protein, low fat gastropod is a Hereford snail and ox cheek lasagna. It has me humming in delight and says, “Snails are back.”Wild garlic escargot from Koyn“Snails are also still a bit unusual for Brits,” he adds.

Oct 9, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Toyo Odetunde

Looking out at rolling hills from winemaker Patrick Simcic’s vineyard, I feel like Simba above the Pridelands. I’m filled with awe as I study the endless folds of green that are dotted with thick shrubs and washed in the blonde glow of sunset. What a joy it must be to see this every day. Bordering Italy, the leafy region between the Adriatic Sea and Julian Alps is sometimes referred to as the Tuscany of Slovenia.