The Menu Monocle Radio

Join Monocle’s deputy head of radio, Tom Webb, as he takes us on a whistle-stop tour of this year’s Monocle Christmas Market in Zürich. 
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We sit down with “master of wine” and author Rebecca Gibb to explore the tantalising world of wine fraud. Also in the programme: Monocle’s Copenhagen correspondent, Michael Booth, finds out why Denmark is emerging as a gourmet coffee destination. Plus: our man in the Balkans, Guy de Launey, meets the award-winning Slovenian chef Jorg Zupan.
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Borneo conjures images of wild jungle canopies and tropical fauna. But there is more to the world’s third-largest island than rainforests and orangutans. Monocle’s Lilian Fawcett visits Kuching in Malaysian Borneo, which was named a “creative city of gastronomy” by Unesco for its diverse culinary offering.
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We meet Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams, founders of Kudu Collective, a group of popular South African restaurants in London. Also in the programme: Monocle’s Lisbon correspondent, Gaia Lutz, discovers Portugal’s autumnal love affair with chestnuts, and Simon Marks finds out about San Francisco’s unusual Thanksgiving ingredient: Dungeness crab. 
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We head to Paris’s Rue des Martyrs, a street in the vibrant 9th arrondissement, which is brimming with dedicated food retailers that have been honing their craft for decades. Monocle’s Claudia Jacob takes us through the addresses preserving France’s traditional cuisine, as well as those going against the grain. 
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We sit down with Sunny Wu and Irene Hua, the brains behind new London opening Hainan House. Julia Lasica is in the kitchen with her mother and journalist Roksolyanan Lasica to find out how to make her version of the beloved Ukrainian dish borscht. Plus: Ivan Carvalho heads to the outskirts of Florence to visit  the La Marzocco Espresso Academy.
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