There weren't too may other scowling faces to be seen in the hotel we stayed at, with most guests happy with their lot and unperturbed by the fact that their all-inclusive holiday meant they did not get the chance to sample other cuisines away from the hotel.
Future trips planned by the School of Life include one entitled Around the World inside the M25 (exploring London's different ethnic cuisines and attractions) and a Simple Living weekend, which will combine discussions about living austerely with simple pleasures such as walking, baking and cloudspotting.
| Phil Beadle "I particularly like the new emphasis on understanding and enjoying English and international cuisines and encouraging students to develop their own recipes".
Delicate, fresh and flavoursome, it's a fusion of African, Asian and European cuisines, with an emphasis on Indian spices.
Its kitchen appliances are adaptable to different cuisines: with a few modifications, a rice-cooker for the Chinese market is repurposed to make borscht in Russia or cassoulet in France.As it demonstrated this week, Philips still has to lose a reputation for springing unpleasant surprises.
Cultures are kept distinct by cuisines, and cuisines are distinguished by taste.Colliding cuisinesBut cuisines, like continents, have a habit of colliding.
Last year, Birmingham's former "poet laureate" (it is the only city in Britain which appoints its own) Roi Kwabena celebrated the city's "cuisines galore/carnivals in the shadow of public art/an entire district dedicated to balti".
The book catalogues the diversity of cuisines within America and an abundance of local food traditions.
When McDonald's opened its first Russian branch Mr Novikov applied, proudly telling his interviewers about the various cuisines he could cook.
Blancmange and fritters mingle with less familiar cuisines.
Both have huge, celebrated carnivals, notoriously corrupt local politics and famous local cuisines based on ground-up shellfish (gumbo and crayfish in the Big Easy, vatapá and shrimp in Bahia).
