Author: chloemackean

Hi, I'm Chloe and I absolutely love food and cooking. Some of my closest friends have been made through cooking and eating together and very often I find myself breaking the ice with strangers by talking about the food they love. For some years now, whenever I’ve gone on holiday I’ve written down recipes from people I meet along the way. Food is both universal and personal, one of the reasons I love it so much. I also love to travel and am very interested in different cultures and people. For me, talking to the tuk tuk driver on the way to a famous tourist site is more interesting than the site itself. Since January 2018 my husband Cassian and I have been living our dream of exploring parts of the world. I quit my job in London where I was managing an environmental network and flew to Ethiopia. Cass and I are dividing our time up between travelling and volunteering on a range of sustainability projects. So far we've visited Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, and will spend the rest of 2018 exploring East Africa. In 2019, who know where our curiosity will take us?! Follow me on Instagram: peopleimeet_foodtheyeat Or send me an email: chloemackean@gmail.com

Octopus Soup

A sure sign we must be nearing the coast is when I step off the bus in Mbeya and see a group of men standing over a table eating and talking animatedly. It’s dark by now and just one bright bulb suspended from a broom stick lights up a rickety wooden table, which on closer…

Moba and Afro’s Swahili Prawns with Coconut Rice

Nine months into the trip and we’ve hit the Tanzanian coast, hallelujah! The wait rewards us with coconut fringed white sand beaches and layer upon layer of crystal blue water, the kind of beaches you see on billboards in London tube stations when it’s pissing it down with rain and has been dark since 3…

Susan’s Tofu Burgers

Simple but delicious and healthy recipe for vegan tofu burgers.

Emmanuel’s ‘family time’ potatoes and beans

A comforting dish of potatoes and beans that will taste even better when cooked with family.

Aminatha’s East African Cabbage

A deliciously simple recipe for cabbage, popular all over East Africa.

Ugandan Street Food & Cheap Local Eats

It may not seem like an obvious place for it, but the street food scene in Uganda is live and kicking. Town centres, bus stations and roadsides are full of people selling chapatis, grilled chicken, maize and a glorious bounty of fruit and vegetables – avocadoes bigger than your hand or seven different types of…