Food brings the world to your table

The most amazing thing about food is that it transports you. You can be sitting in your kitchen in Stroud eating Dal Bhat, and be taken straight back to eating it with your hands in Nepal as a teenager. Or be baking roti on the tawah, remembering fondly the stacks of these buttery flatbreads that you ate in Malaysia on your honeymoon. Whatever food you are longing for from around the world, can be made by you, (with a little effort) - and in the making comes a greater understanding of different cultures, different environments, different tastes. Close your eyes and you can be taken to another time, another place. Food is a time machine that puts the whole world at your fingertips with a simple recipe.