• Home made Bouillabaise at a youth hostel on the Dingle Peninsula
• The first time my love cooked me poached fish and ong choi with fermented tofu
• Tetsuya's
• Fresh-cooked falafel in a Damascus souk
• Smoked trout on white bread with lots of butter, made for me by my Papa
• Billy's Chinese New Year feast
• Clay pot rice in Hong Kong
• Champ in a Belfast pub

Overseas:

• London
• Belfast
• Cardiff
• Edinburgh
• Dublin
• Leeds
• Manchester
• Bradford
• Sheffield
• New York
• Colorado Springs
• San Francisco
• Cairo
• Damascus
• Hong Kong
• Las Vegas
• Orlando
• Wilmington
• Savannah
• Charleston

• The Pillow Book
• When Harry Met Sally
• Love Actually
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• The Princess Bride

• Sexing The Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)
• Boating for Beginners (Jeanette Winterson)
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• The Boat (Nam Le)
• American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
• Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson)
• Posessing the Seacret of Joy (Alice Walker)
• For the Love of Elspheth A Baker (Myron Kaufmann)
• Tender Morsels (Margo Lanagan)