Over the Christmas season, you’re resigned to the fact that your chef life is thrown even more out of balance than usual. That much-needed rest can wait for a few weeks. But that shouldn’t keep you from gaining small wins
Your contribution
I’ll repeat this multiple times over the season, because it needs to be reinforced: take a moment to appreciate your work, chef. While the world transitions from closing out one year and ushering in the next, you’re helping people celebrate, reminisce, forget,
Chefs at Christmas 2017
This week Love Letters to Chefs once again launches the 6-week Chefs at Christmas campaign, sending you gentle reminders to look after yourself during this crazy busy season. All the best, chefs! Share Tweet Follow Email
Camino Day 7: Letting go
And so I finished my Camino at the Basilica de Begoña in Bilbao. My intention of doing the pilgrimage was to let go of old ways of being, and it wasn’t until the final 3km. of my 7-day journey that
Camino Day 6: Intuition
What if I learnt to trust my intuition through life as much as I did these signposts guiding my Camino? I regretted not having made reservations for accommodation before I got to Lezama (the albergue was closed). It was the eve
Camino Day 6: Shadows
I will tell you this much about the Camino: with one focus, few distractions and all those solitary moments, you come into close contact with your emotions. I mean real close contact. You go through quite a range everyday: frustration, impatience, anger,
Camino Day 5: Autonomy
This was one of my most powerful takeaways from my pilgrimage. At Gernika, I regretted that the Camino was becoming a race from one albergue to the next for me, and that I couldn’t connect more deeply with Basque culture. Hundreds of artisanal food
Camino Day 4: Community
This could not be more true on the Camino de Santiago. In every moment you get to appreciate how much your pilgrimage has been supported by others – from those who carved out the trail over a millennium ago, those who
Camino Day 4: Presence
You know that playlist of fears and worries that invades your mind, getting in the way of you doing what you have to do? Don’t you sometimes just want to make it stop? Doesn’t it just add to your plate when you’re
Camino Day 3: Solid Relationship
Day 3 from Deba to Markina was probably the toughest and most isolated section of my Camino, with the pine forests also hiding my fellow pilgrims once we headed into the mountains. The test here was for my psychology – how well