New Year’s in Edinburgh defied all expectations.

For me, a bowl of soup in Laos at dawn.

Friends, gingerbread ninja cookies and a 14-pound turkey named Hester.

Using condiments and table spices as a springboard to learn more about history.

Photos from the old city of Essaouira, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

Some basic rules for driving in Morocco.

A photoessay of delicious eats from Morocco, focusing on tagine.

The chaos, noise and delicious eats at Marrakesh’s most famous square.

Handcrafted leather, curled lines of writing on the walls of the mosques, the tiny poppy seed heads from the spice markets: some photos of my initial impressions from Morocco.