Food&Drinks

Spanish gastronomy

Spanish dishes
Geography, culture and climate have created a cuisine with varied recipes and culinary styles. The different civilizations that have crossed and stayed through the peninsula have also left their habits which have remained among the Spanish society until nowadays.

Pote asturiano

Pote asturiano
Traditional stew of the Asturian cookery; it is a dish of great caloric values that is prepared during winter in the chimneys, it is served on very hot plates and there are diverse variants in different regions.

Cookery on Canary Islands

Canarian Cookery
The Canary cookery can be regarded as the most original and cosmopolitan of Spain, since together with dishes containing a peninsular inspiration, it presents receipts which could very well be considered Latin American or African ones.

Parma Ham or "Jamón Serrano"

Jamón Serrano
Parma Ham or "Jamón Serrano" is a gastronomical delicacy we all appreciate, has a curious story almost lost in ancient time.

La Fabada Asturiana, Asturian bean stew

Fabada
La fabada is a stew with white beans and bacon, sausage and blood sausage, typical of Asturias, it is really a very typical dish of the traditional cookery here.

Sausage or 'Chorizos'

Chorizos
Sausage is a meat product, typically Spanish and they are only made with pork meat, however there are other kinds of sausages with other meats, but these are the ones called cheap.

Pulpo, a Galician charm

Pulpo a la gallega
In Galicia there is a very nutritious dish, it is Dopey with a Galician charm. A traditional and basic dish in the local gastronomy there, though its consumption has spread all over Spain.

Select an Spanish wine

Wines in Spain
Spain is the third wine producer in the world after France and Italy, and has more than a million hectares of land dedicated to viticulture. Spanish wines (vinos) are classified according to their "Denominación de Origen" (D.O.) depending on the region they originate from.

The Catalan cuisine

Catalan Cuisine
We can divide the catalan cuisine in highland and inland cuisine, where meat, milky products and products from the forest prevail, as well as orchard and farm products; the seafaring cuisine has fish as leading ingredient along with rice, noodles or potatoes

Variants of paella and mixed paella

Vegetables paella
Another type of paella is the one known as mixed, since it mixes the meat paella (chicken and rabbit) with the shellfish paella. It is a recent creation made in other Spanish regions.