Whether you’re traveling around Nepal by air, public bus or private car, you can be sure of a ride that’s incredibly scenic.
09.05.2024 - 18:55 / cntraveler.com
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What does it take to eat well—and simply? To find out, Lale chats with Yasmin Fahr, author of the new book Cook Simply Live Fully (and former undercover hotel critic), for advice on shopping at local markets, how to make use of an Airbnb kitchen, and the joy of cooking far from home—and hears stories of island life on Menorca.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there, I'm Lale Arikoglu, and this is A Women Who Travel episode about food and cooking that makes you happy. I'm talking to Yasmin Fahr, who went from being an undercover hotel and restaurant critic, eating meals that lasted hours in the world's best restaurants and staying in luxury hotels from Brazil to China, to a dramatic change in her professional and personal life.
Yasmin Fahr: I was undercover, and I did have a fake name with a credit card. For restaurants I could use it, not for hotels, of course, or we'd have someone come with me, to be my cover. It was great, but there were definitely moments when it felt lonely, also, to be in this beautiful, romantic resort by myself. I'm looking around, being like, "What am I doing here?"
LA: Yasmin is talking to me today from her new home on the low-key island of Menorca, not to be confused with its noisier and more touristy neighbors, Mallorca and Ibiza.
YF: I do think it's a beautiful island. It's relatively small. You can drive across it in about 45 minutes, and there's one main road, which everything peaks off of, and the north is beautiful. There's beautiful red rocks. The south has this beautiful white sand, and clear water. I think I'm obviously in love with this place, so I probably will talk about it a lot.
LA: Well, we're going to get really into Menorca soon, don't worry.
YF: Oh, okay.
LA: I'm going to make you talk about it.
I was going through just your bio, and your travels when you were at Forbes. Just tell me a little bit about that time, and that job, because it sounds like those travels really led up to what you're doing now.
YF: Yes. It was an incredible job, of course, being able to travel all over, and I was doing it at a very good time. I was about 28 to 32. For the first two years, it was definitely a dream job, because I had been working at a startup with really long hours, and what I wanted to do was not work in an office and travel the world. I was very lucky in finding this job. I was basically going to these luxury, five-star hotels, and eating at these wonderful restaurants all over the world.
I definitely learned a lot about food, cuisine, and hospitality, and different cultures, because I had a lot of free time to explore when I wasn't reviewing hotels and
Whether you’re traveling around Nepal by air, public bus or private car, you can be sure of a ride that’s incredibly scenic.
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