You can’t have tapas without having a good sausage or two, and the two that top my list are cantipalitos and morcilla.
Cantipalitos are little red sausages with smoked paprika - an essential ingredient in Spanish cooking - and garlic (among a few other things). They are smoky sweet with a nice garlic tang, and are [...]

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I have a deep love for cheese. Actually, it borders on an addiction, but (so far) I am able to live my life normally.
Does flying to Argentina for cheese count as normal?
A couple of years ago Barnaby I went to Argentina to visit friends. Really, it was to visit friends, the cheese (and wine, meat, [...]

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There is a Spanish restaurant, Iberia, in Menlo Park, California that we used to love to go to for tapas. One of my favorite things to have was pa amb tomàquet. Catalan for “bread with tomato,” pa amb tomàquet is simple to make and simply delicious. It consists of toasted bread rubbed with tomato [...]

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“Get those skinny ones out of here and bring in the short, pudgy ones!”
Would that not be great if that is what we heard at Parisian fashion shows? Sigh, how life for women would change. But, alas, I speak not of fashion models, the plump beauties I’m talking about are Spanish Marcona almonds. These are [...]

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