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Introducing the 1st food podcast from Dubai that showcases the food culture, homegrown food artisans and local food stories of the city. Featured on Emirates Airlines inflight entertainment.

Hosted by Arva Ahmed, co-founder of Dubai's original food and culture tourism venture, Frying Pan Adventures - fryingpanadventures.com.

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Nov 30, 2020

We celebrate the UAE's 49th National Day by popping open a bag of one our childhood favourite crisps: Chips Oman. Featuring Chips Oman devotees on our team, our GM and Food Tour Guide Farida Ahmed and our Eating Designer Mufaddal Husein.

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Nov 23, 2020

We dip our fingers into the rich buttery subject of clarified butter aka ghee with artist, home baker and nature lover Cherida Fernandez and our Frying Pan Adventures food tour guide Noorin Ansari.

Mentioned on the podcast, Cherida's blog post on ghee: ‘Ghee-wiz’ – Discovering the surprise that clarified butter...


Nov 16, 2020

We dip into jars of spicy relish inspired by flavours of the Middle East, Mediterranean and East Asia. Our guest speakers are two Dubai-based small-batch culinary artisans. Rasha Itani from S'Hauce and Ali Shawwa from Banak Kitchen.

Instagram handles: Rasha Itani from S'Hauce (@shauce_ae), Ali Shawwa from Banak Kitchen


Nov 9, 2020

We take a "cake walk" down memory lane with our food tour guides Nahla Tabbaa and Stephanie Mahmoud to unearth childhood cake trends. We also shine a light on creative cake variations and bakeries that you can find now in Dubai.   

Grab the list of all the bakeries mentioned on our blog here.

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Nov 2, 2020

We explore some biryani variants that we've enjoyed in Dubai with our our Eating Designer Mufaddal Husein and our food tour guide Tanya Rehman.

Grab the list of all the restaurants mentioned and a few more to try on our blog here

Corrections: Beriani Isfahani is made with lamb (not goat meat) and the lungs on the side...