Maria from Poltava, Ukraine

Hello!

I’m Maria and I would like to tell you about one of my hobbies! I have a lot of in­ter­ests but what I like the most is to trav­el and to eat some­thing tas­ty so my hob­by is gas­tro-tourism. My hob­by de­vel­ops my cre­a­tiv­i­ty and make me feel hap­py.

One of my favou­rite rea­sons for hav­ing gas­tro-tourism as a hob­by is be­ing able to im­merse my­self in dif­fer­ent coun­tries and cul­tures rather than see­ing them on screen or read­ing about them. For me, food is the fo­cus and the mo­ti­va­tion for the trav­el.

I have al­ways been a cu­ri­ous and ad­ven­tur­ous eater, so my in­ter­est in ex­plor­ing foods from other cul­tures start­ed when I was tee­nag­er.

I en­joy tast­ing lo­cal dish­es and bev­er­ages. I love tast­ing del­i­ca­cies from other cul­tures, vis­it­ing new res­tau­rants. Ev­ery time I go to a new res­tau­rant, I will try new in­ter­na­tio­n­al cuisines. I al­so like to take pho­tos of ev­ery­thing I eat! What is your fa­vorite food? When you dine out, what food do you en­joy?

Yours,
Maria.