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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Jon Bryant

Market stalls, Michelin stars and more: my Mediterranean food photography journey

Travel writer Jon Bryant
Food underlies much of travel writer Jon Bryant’s work. Photograph: Rebecca Marshall/The Guardian
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For most of us, taking pictures of a gleaming paella, Vietnamese pho or a display of lavender macarons is a huge part of being on holiday. Looking at the shots on our phone screens brings back not just the memory of a taste, but the place, the time, a soundtrack of conversations and emotions of that particular moment, a sensory souvenir of that pastel de nata in Belém or the crispy, wavy filo on the delicious spanakopita – the classic Greek spinach and cheese pie – at my friend Orfeas’s home on Cephalonia.

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