Farida Ahmed, MD, Frying Pan Adventures

Season 8 opens in Rome. We sat down inside Orient Express La Minerva with Gilda Perez Alvarez, the CEO of Orient Express, for a conversation on slow travel, timeless luxury and a brand that has been connecting people and places since 1883. Trains, hotels, a sailing yacht and an i ...  Show more

Fifty episodes in and we are still pinching ourselves that we get to do this. For the Season 7 finale we sat down with Katerina Giannouka, a passionate hotelier and one of the most well travelled people we know and she took us on a journey that left us completely speechless. Japa ...  Show more

How do you go about carving a brand new facet for yourself in a tourism industry saturated by desert safaris? Pull up a chair and join the conversation with Arva & Farida Ahmed of Frying Pan Adventures. CreditsOriginal music composed by Reiner Erlings. Our thanks to HardTalk for ...  Show more

When we were on lockdown, one of our rituals was getting drive-through shawarma in Dubai. We lovingly call this tradition: Meshwarma. So we invited our new friend Arva Ahmed to give us her top shawarma recommendations in the city. Arva is the founder of Frying Pan Adventures, a D ...  Show more

With many people affected by the lockdowns due to the worldwide pandemic, not knowing where the next meal will come is especially stressful. Enter Frying Pan Adventures, whose Stay-home Gift-a-Meal initiative has been getting wholesome meals from local community restaurants to ne ...  Show more