‘Everything is so almost right’ In my halcyon, and rather hazy youth, I travelled around Peru and Bolivia, admittedly seeing more of the inside of hostel bars than walls of venerable temples. But what sticks with me, after all these (many) years, is the range and breadth of the culinary diversity in that enchanted strip of South America. Robert Ortiz’s ...

‘Colour, flavour, and pounds of gorgeous bread’ What makes a restaurant a perfect refuge from the nibbling insecurities of life? Why, for instance, is a café, sausage rolls and all, not a restaurant? How about a food truck outside a brewery or a hotdog stand manned by two entrepreneurial 11-year-olds? The line between different purveyors of food and atmosphere is ...