About BoyEatsWorld

About Boy Eats World

Welcome to Boy Eats World, an award-winning Australian family food and travel website with an appetite for adventure and a healthy disregard for staying home.

Founded by travel journalist and magazine editor Aleney de Winter and her son Raff, Boy Eats World began as a way to document our family’s adventures and share the extraordinary things we discovered along the way. What started with a small boy’s enormous appetite and a passport full of stamps has grown into an established food and travel publication covering destinations, experiences, food and family adventures in Australia and around the world.

We’re big believers that the best way to understand a place is to get out there and experience it. Eat the local food, wander the backstreets, talk to the people, explore the markets and occasionally take a wrong turn. Some of our favourite discoveries have come from the places and experiences we never planned to find.

Today, Boy Eats World is run by Aleney and Raff, with Marlo bringing her own perspective to our travels. Between us, we’ve explored dozens of countries, eaten our way through countless cuisines and collected more than a few stories worth sharing.

You’ll find practical family travel guides, destination inspiration, accommodation reviews, restaurant recommendations, recipes, cultural experiences and honest accounts of travelling with kids (who are growing up rather inconveniently fast).

Whether you’re planning your next family holiday, looking for somewhere delicious to eat, searching for inspiration for your next adventure or simply enjoy armchair travelling with a side of food envy, we’re glad you’re here.

Our philosophy is simple. Travel widely, eat adventurously, stay curious and never underestimate the power of a really good meal.

Meet the BoyEatsWorld crew

Aleney

That’s me! Though I also answer to “Mum”, “Mama”, “Bruh” and an ever-evolving language of sighs, grunts, eye rolls and random gesticulations that my teenagers use in place of actual words.

I’m Aleney de Winter, founder of Boy Eats World, a multi-award-winning travel journalist, food writer and accomplished magazine editor. I’ve spent much of my career exploring the world, writing about the places, people, food and experiences that make travel so rewarding, and editing travel publications across print and digital.

When I’m not travelling, writing or editing this website, you’ll usually find me cooking up a storm in my pathetically small kitchen, plotting our next adventure or attempting to negotiate with teenagers. My family remains my joyful priority, while my professional work keeps me creatively fulfilled and mostly sane.

I have an incurable addiction to travel that probably warrants professional intervention and care far too much about what I eat, where it comes from and who’s cooking it. I believe food is culture, travel is education and the best stories usually happen somewhere you least expect them.

If you’re looking for someone who takes food, travel and storytelling seriously but knows how to laugh at the chaos of managing all three, I’m your gal!

Raff

The “boy” in Boy Eats World, 18-year-old Raff is a former TV travel host, award-winning public speaker, print travel columnist, passionate musician and co-editor of Boy Eats World. He’s also the OG inspiration for this website, having been dragged around the world from an age when his biggest travel achievement was sleeping through dinner at one of the world’s most celebrated restaurants.

With a passion for travel bordering on the obsessive and an appetite to rival an entire stable of Sumo wrestlers, Raff’s first “foodie” experience occurred in San Sebastian, home to an extraordinary concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants. While his family indulged in leisurely pintxos lunches and a three-hour, gazillion-course dinner at Mugaritz, then ranked among the world’s best restaurants, complete with signature potato “stones” and butter-soft brioche crusted in crisp caramel, magic happened. At least it would have been magical had he been conscious. At just five months old, he snoozed happily in his stroller while the adults indulged. I like to think something supernatural occurred by osmosis that evening, as he’s been a fearless travelling foodie ever since.

Now an adult, Raff still travels like someone who knows there’s a better meal just around the corner. The appetite remains heroic, but these days it’s paired with a sharp cultural radar and a playlist that changes with every border crossing. Food is still part of the story, but music has become his compass.

Cities are judged by their record stores, underground gigs and the way sound spills out of doorways late at night. He’s curious in a way that feels instinctive, tuned in to how people live, dress, eat and express themselves.

With dozens of countries behind him, Raff moves through the world with an ease that still surprises us. Confident but not cocky. Observant. Open. He understands that culture isn’t something you simply visit. It’s something you listen to, taste, argue about and occasionally get lost in.

Sugarpuff

She may be the baby of the family, but there’s nothing soft about the way our girl takes on the world. A seasoned young traveller with more than two dozen countries under her belt, she brings a bold, almost electric energy to travel that’s all her own. Sure, like her brother, she loves to eat, but as a singer, artist and ardent feminist, it’s music, fashion, art and culture that fuel her.

She notices details we sometimes miss. What kids her age are wearing on the streets of Seoul. How girls claim space in cities that don’t always make it easy. The music playing in taxis and markets. She absorbs it all and filters it through her own fierce sense of self.

She still turns heads with the wild hair and cheeky grin, now matched with confidence and opinions. Strong ones. She’s curious, outspoken, and so strong-willed that we wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up becoming the benevolent dictator of some small, unsuspecting nation we pass through on our travels. The fact that she survived infancy without being marinated in a white wine sauce and devoured by her older brother is proof of her single-minded determination to take over the planet one bouncy step at a time.

WORK WITH US

If you’d like to work with us or would like any further information about Boy Eats World, please contact Aleney at aleney@smallworldmedia.com.au.