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)  

Spanish Kitchen

Now that I am, regretfully, packing up my kitchen in Barcelona, it seemed timely to expound on the indispensible items presumably (from my sporadic research) to be found in the arsenal of a Spanish home cook. Many of these items can be found in the U.S. (try Trader Joe’s) but of course, never in the [...]

Santa Maria Del Mar

The first documentary reference we find to the church of Santa Maria del Mar is in a text from the year 998. This basilica is the work of the architect Berenguer de Montagut, and the first stone was laid to commemorate the conquest of Sardinia, which completed the Catalan domination in the Mediterranean initiated ten [...]

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