When I was last in Catalonia someone took me to a place called Can Tura in San Aniol de Finestres for Sunday lunch. We went in, sat down in front of three piles up plates a napkin a bucket with an iced bottle of red wine and a board with some butifarra, fuet and . . . → Read More: The first ever Catalan Cooking Casa de Pages Pop-Up Supperclub event
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 It’s January and all the overdoses of Christmas are a faint memory. We’re all skint, fat and cold. With that in mind the twitter cookalong is a vegetable soup. Now I hate cauliflower. Not as much as brussel sprouts – they are the actual spawn of Satan as far as I am concerned, but . . . → Read More: Twitter Cookalong 12th Jan – Cream of Cauliflower Soup The Pope is in Spain on an official visit, one of the reasons for this is to inaugurate the Sagrada Familia, one of the most popular and expensive tourist sites in Barcelona. The protests against the Pontiff’s trip have been numerous but seemed to me, at least, to have more relevance than the ones . . . → Read More: The Pope in Barcelona  This moment of self-realisation provokes a headache, a bout of self-pity and a subsequent need for something sweet. In the end I make bunyols. They are small Catalan doughnuts and I make sweet ones. I feel too sorry for myself to attempt a trip out to the shops to buy a bottle of anise, and indeed fear my desire to prove myself worthy of the title of honorary anarchist in public, so I use rose water and sweet Pedro Ximenez sherry instead. . . . → Read More: Anarchism, La Diada, Doughnuts and me  Ticket will have a facade of 40 metres with a cultural timeline of the history of the tapa. One of the bars will serve mediterranean tapas while another one modern creative ones. A third bar will serve sweet tapas. The provisional website is www.ticketsbar.es and it’s due to open January 2011 . . . → Read More: Ferran Adria’s New Restaurant in Barcelona;Ticket and 41º In January Ferran Adria announced he was closing El Bulli as a restaurant and reopening it as a Foundation. Today he announced on Catalan TV that he will be opening a ‘place to eat’ in Barcelona with his brother that will be nothing like El Bulli. . . . → Read More: What the World’s Greatest Chef Does After Announcing He’s Closing His Restaurant |
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