Mallorca’s Unique Cuisine

Real Mallorcan food is hearty and rural in origin based largely on fish, lamb, and pork with generous helpings of fresh vegetables and pulses cooked in olive oil. A popular home-made stock for soups comes from ground almond nuts and can be found as a base for soups, casseroles and Mallorcan sauces. Mallorca restaurants and [...]

Barcelona Bistros

Barcelona bistros Gresca and Inopia (the latter, a tapas bar, was opened by Ferran Adria’s brother Albert) have much deserved acclaim, but some newer kids on the block are packing diners in, too. Examples abound of what a prominent Catalan journalist has dubbed “bistronomia” — innovative cooking at down-to-earth prices. But standouts include Cinc Sentits, [...]

VIP Barcelona

The coolest places in Spain’s hot seaside city. Nestled in Aribau, one of the main thoroughfares of the compact and largely tourist-free Eixample neighborhood, the restaurant “Five Senses” wins praise for its market-based tasting menus that change with the seasons.”Barcelona, posa’t guapa” — “Doll yourself up!” That’s what Barcelona’s city hall advised the denizens of [...]

History of Catalan cuisine

Seven hundred years of history count for a lot… and on the table too. Travel through time in the most flavoursome way. the first successful cuisine: mediaeval cooking The first recipes in Latin-derived languages 14th and 15th century are in Catalan, like the so-called Sent Soví. Probably much of the uniqueness of Catalan cuisine comes [...]

Spanish Phrases

Spanish Basic Phrases, Vocabulary and Grammar Welcome  Bienvenido (sg) Bienvenidos (pl)   Hello  ¡Hola! ¿Aló? ¡Bueno! ¡Diga! ¡Dígame! ¡Hola! (on phone)  

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