Author | FooDiva

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  My Maldives – a top 10 culinary bucket list

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  It’s taken me 14 years of living in the desert to visit paradise, and I’ve no idea why. When I worked for Hilton, the Conrad with its undersea restaurant was a short staff rate away, but I still didn’t go. Crazy given how astronomically expensive these resorts are...

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  New café concepts with a difference

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  Dubai; A good few years ago I harboured an ambition somewhere in the depths of my hyper-active brain to open a café one day - to the point that I started collecting retro memorabilia to decorate this dream.

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  Levant by Anissa Helou – more than just a cookbook

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  “When I was in Gaziantep in south eastern Turkey last year researching my cookbook I visited a large hangar where this man was rolling ceviz sucugu, grape leather for walnut

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  What’s new for dinner on the Palm?

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  It’s a helluva long drive, by Dubai standards that is, as our car eases its way around the east crescent of Palm Jumeirah passing Atlantis, Sofitel, the Waldorf Astoria construction site, and finally our first destination...

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  Celebrity chefs dock into Dubai

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  Over the next couple of weeks Dubai will welcome 33 celebrity guest chefs, of which 19 have restaurants with Michelin stars around the world. Now that’s no mean feat for our small fine dining out population, but a testament perhaps to the emirate’s rising status in the...

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  Top 10 brunches in Dubai

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  Believe it or not, Dubai has its very own Wikipedia entry under brunch – alongside you’d think New York perhaps, but no rather bizarrely, Canada. No other country or city features. Why is brunch here in Dubai such an institution, more so than anywhere else in the world?

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  FooDiva on CNN, plus a new-look blog

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  “CNN is filming a travel show on Dubai and we’d like you to be our go-to person on restaurants. Can we meet tomorrow to discuss?”...

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  For the sake of sake: a guide to all things sake

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  Dubai; If you love a tipple of sake, do you prefer it served warm or chilled? I've always enjoyed mine at room temperature until I travelled around Japan three years ago where it's frowned upon. Etiquette says...

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  A new dining guide for Dubai, plus musings on restaurant concepts

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  Dubai; My passion and business of reviewing restaurants may be primarily online, but I still like to delve into print reviews and guides. There’s something reassuring about leafing through a book that my ipad’s Kindle reader will never replicate. If you think so too,

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