Postcards from Tibet

Many of you know that Mr and Mrs Taste Tibet also run a sideline operation that is called parenting. Master and Little Miss Taste Tibet

Now that the the rules about getting in the car have relaxed a bit (or have they? perhaps let’s not go there) it becomes possible

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in everybody’s day-to-day lives, but not many people have had the experience of having to reconfigure their business overnight. We’ve just

At our stall and pop ups we have always encouraged people to bring their own reusable food containers. A money-back deal makes this offer pretty

It’s been a mad few weeks. Thank you to everyone for your support for our small business. We are very fortunate to be set up

We are so excited about this! Over the last couple of weeks many of you have tagged us in some truly momotastic pictures of your

It’s a tale of two cities right now. Here in Oxford it’s a weird start to spring. It’s beautiful out there, but we can’t go

We are really excited to share some news with you that makes everything feel a bit better: this week we are starting to roll out

The Taste Tibet summer festival tent is getting an airing! We are not expecting any festival action this year, but here is an interim solution

A snapshot of our lives right now. We are building up to a really exciting summer of events (those currently confirmed include the Hay-on-Wye Literature

Master physician, Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, with thanks to High Peaks Pure Earth and Weibo user Last Classical Man We were supposed to be heading off

This week, images speak louder than words, as we bring in the new year with three hugely exciting announcements. First, up, this: A tantalising first

We have finally landed a delicious dessert on the menu at our pop up at Silvie. Ice cream is of course a known thing, but

Offering prayers before food is a common practice among followers of all the world’s major religions. Christians, for example, say grace before their meals. Muslims

We have a new staple on the menu at our pop up at Silvie, and it’s got a lot of people talking. It doesn’t take

Mushrooms and fungi are an important part of the Tibetan diet. There are many different varieties, and some are so valuable that they can sell

In Tibet, whatever you consume, you usually have a direct relationship with the person who produced it. This means that people take pride in their

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hvOEEXh6Y Money holds very little currency at home in Tibet. In Yeshi’s village, people farm most of what they need. Multiple cropping yields two harvests

This one has been a hard to keep quiet! Julie is the proud winner of this year’s Yan-Kit So Memorial Award for Food Writers on

This blog post is dedicated to all the people who have helped us get to year six of Taste Tibet! Most of you don’t want

The romantic notion of Tibet as a land where the pace of life is slow and there’s little to do but sip butter tea and

In Tibet, there are very few times of the year when singing and dancing are not a feature of daily life, and when eating meat

In Tibet, meat is a topic of considerable interest and debate. Geoffrey Barstow recently wrote a whole book about it, unpicking how the practice of

When I first met Chef Yeshi he was in the process of selling his business, a market stall in Goa where he had sold jewellery

by @a_j_knight_ Tibet is a mountainous country, parts of which are very inaccessible, and when people get ill they are usually a long way from

Do you love your stove? Maybe you do. But do you honour it, respect it, feed it? In Tibet, the family stove is the residence

Foragers – get excited! It’s nettle season, and this week’s blog brings you Chef’s favourite nettle soup recipe. Tibetan people love eating nettles. They call

People often wonder how Asian people stay so slim when food appears to be so plenty. In Tibet, it’s the same story as elsewhere in

Do you think about food in terms of colour? In the west we talk often about eating greens, but there’s no other food type that

The Himalayan region is shared between China (including Tibet), Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and India. The mountains were there long before people inhabited these parts, and

I’ve written before about food as the language of love, but really, food is the language of love. In Tibet, this certainly seems to be

@tibetanencounter posted this lovely image (L) of a traditional Tibetan summer picnicking tent on their Instagram today. Here in the UK we’re not quite there

There were no shops in the village where I grew up in eastern Tibet. There is a small store there now. My family say that

Photo credit: @tibetanportraits Valentine’s Day has yet to make inroads in Tibet. Perhaps there are whispers of it now in the big cities, but it

Happy Tibetan new year! Today is Losar, or Tibetan new year, the most celebrated event in the Tibetan calendar. This year we are bringing in