home Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/tag/home/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:54:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://www.janfuscoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/favicon2.png home Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/tag/home/ 32 32 172376967 Fighting Fascism & Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:31:40 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8947 The story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades. Read my article for the Byline Times here. And for more on the ‘Brick Lane Project’, here’s an article about Barbara Beese and the Mangrove Nine https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/29/the-woman-with-the-afro-the-story-of-barbara-beese/

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/feed/ 0 8947 Federico Fellini https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:02:56 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8478 Film director, Federico Fellini, created such masterpieces as La Dolce Vita (winner of the Palme d’Or in 1960), and 8½ (listed by Sight & Sound as the 10th greatest film of all time). And four of Fellini’s films appear in the BBC Culture’s poll to discover the 100 most popular foreign-language films. Fellini Museum In 2020, Rimini celebrated 100 years…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/feed/ 0 8478 Pellegrino Artusi https://www.janfuscoe.com/pellegrino-artusi/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/pellegrino-artusi/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:20:44 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8457 Cooking Science and the Art of Eating Well In La Scienza in Cucina e l’Arte di Mangier Bene (1891), Pellegrino Artusi considered the scientific role of food in well-being. Was his interest sparked by a near-fatal visit to Livorno in 1855? After eating a bowl of ‘minestrone’, Artusi suffered terrible stomach pains. Days later he discovered…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/pellegrino-artusi/feed/ 0 8457 Tunisia https://www.janfuscoe.com/tunisia/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/tunisia/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2015 07:44:55 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=3549 Tataouine, in southern Tunisia, is famous for the trogolodyte buildings of the native Berber* population. It's so other-worldly, that director George Lucas used it as a backdrop for one of his Star Wars films. The buildings are actually ancient grain stores, or ksour, and you can read more in my Time Out article here.

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/tunisia/feed/ 0 3549 Krakow https://www.janfuscoe.com/schindler-factory-krakow/ Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:42:59 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=2256 The German army marched into Kraków on 6 September 1939. By November, all Jews over the age of 12 were commanded to wear armbands. This was the beginning of the occupier's segregation of the population.

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]]> 2256 Modena https://www.janfuscoe.com/modena/ Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:29:32 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?page_id=1067 Balsamic, Bottura and beautiful cars...

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]]> 1067 Faroe Islands https://www.janfuscoe.com/faroe-islands/ Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:00:36 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?page_id=899 The Faroes – a group of 18 islands located in the Norwegian Atlantic – are halfway between Scotland and Iceland. I'd heard of them, of course; I'm a Radio 4 listener, fan of the arcane Shipping Forecast

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]]> 899 Naples https://www.janfuscoe.com/naples/ Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:35:53 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?page_id=124 I decided to skip the private jet, and take the overnight train to Naples. I was about to spend the next seven days cycling and sailing. It’s cheap, eco-friendly and a lot of fun...

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