THE ART OF SEASONING
Spices favour digestion enhance the taste of food and add a different touch to ordinary dishes. Just a pinch of these "magic powders and herbs" and our table is transformed into a magic carpet that…
MENU OF THE MONTH – January 2016
Our Butler has decided that it’s time to get back to healthy eating after the Christmas holidays and makes it easy for us by recommending we consume the following seasonal foods
MENU OF THE MONTH – December 2016
El gran sueño se ha cumplido. El Comité Intergubernamental de la Unesco, reunido en Addis Abeba, ha aprobado este miércoles la entrada de la fiesta de las Fallas en la Lista Representativa de Patrimonio Inmaterial…
THE SEAL OF MY ANCESTORS
WE ARE IN CONSTRUCTION, WORKING FOR YOU. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!
NEW YEAR’S EVE MENU
It’s been many years since I prepared a roast leg of pork, less than 14kilos, but as it was a present and as the saying goes “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” I…
INTERVIEW WITH CARMEN POSADAS
As she herself recounts with a great deal of humour in her extremely long biography, she was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 13th August 1953 weighing in at 5kg into the heart of a diplomatic…
IS CHRISTMAS DIFFERENT IN SPAIN?
Originally Christmas was a religious holiday and it continues to be so for many people, but even for those who don’t adhere to any religious faith this period provides a parenthesis of joviality and harmony…
SINCE WHEN HAS TURKEY FORMED PART OF THE CHRISTMAS MENU IN SPAIN?
It’s December and Christmas is just around the corner. The shopping begins and the gatherings of friends, of family and the eternal question for those hosting a family Christmas at home. What shall I cook…
MENU OF THE MONTH – November 2016
The following 3rd December at 21.30 Telemadrid will launch “Denomination of Origin Madrid”,
SPAIN, A COUNTRY BEYOND ITS TASTES, SMELLS AND COLOURS
Whenever I travel and the more that I do so, the more I’m convinced that having been born on this side of the world is good fortune and more so if you’re a woman. Nobody…
JEREZ SHOULD GIVE THANKS
It cannot be denied; wine is the new rock and Sherry is the new star, the David Bowie of wine, reborn after a long period of lethargy to finally be acclaimed as the King of…
PAELLA OR FIDEUÁ?
According to the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, Paella is “a dry rice dish, with meat, fish, shellfish, pulses, etc., typical of the Valencian region of Spain”. Regarding the word Fideuá it states that…
