Food & Drink
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Shelf obsession
A local deli can make a real difference to quality of life. These are Monocle’s five favourite food stores from around the world, from Sydney to Santa Margherita Ligure.
Toast of the town
In Singapore, a battle is taking place to dominate the toast-and-spread market. With the formula proving popular at home, it’s big business for leading brands with eyes on the rest of Asia.
Inventory No. 44
Natural skincare products, a digital radio and an ingenious paper shredder are among Monocle’s most coveted items this month.
Matthew Evans
Successful chef and food critic Matthew Evans gave it all up to move to Hobart and run a farm. For Evans, it’s all about eating and drinking local produce, as he shows Monocle.
Edmund de Waal
Ceramic artist Edmund de Waal chooses London’s Bocca di Lupo for his ‘last meal’. Fascinated by the visual experience of eating, he enjoys the tapas-style food, which allows him to use his hands.
Inventory No. 43
Wooden games, fine chocolate, olive oil and extra-slim soap bars are on the Monocle shopping list this month
Monocle travel guide
Avant-garde dining in an Athens art gallery, designer apartments in the Bavarian mountains, whale-sighting off the unspoilt Tasmanian coast – explorations to savour in this month’s Monocle travel round-up.
Make some dough
Pizza has long been heralded as a cheap, all-American staple. But delegates at Las Vegas’s International Pizza Expo were witness to a booming artisanal pizza trend – and some dough tossers to boot.
Jahangir Razmi
Pulitzer-winning photographer Jahangir Razmi wants his Last Meal surrounded by friends and family, tucking into a delicately prepared Shandiz kebab. Good things come to those who wait.
Flemish flair
Monocle samples the Belgian city’s top food and drink haunts with a renowned local wine expert.
