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Tapa Thursdays: Hamburguesas
“You not liking a hamburger would tell me you’re more Spanish than American,” Samu says as he served us a hamburger, his style, at Taberna la Tata. The mini ox burger has carmelized onions and beets,...
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Tapa Thursdays: Bar Zapico
Let me just say this: I do not live in Seville’s city center, under the shadow of the Giralda. I live in a working class neighborhood where I’m just known on the plazuela as “esa chica guiri,” where...
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Tapa Thursdays: Cevapi
Right, this blog is about Spain, and Tapa Thursdays should be about Spanish tapas. But I can’t get over the spicy sausage sandwiches we ate in the Balkans, called cevapi. It’s street food perfected,...
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Italian Holiday: First Rate Without the Luxury Price Tag
Ah, Bella Italia. Conjures up images of designer boutiques, smart pavement cafes with eye-wateringly expensive menus, and beautifully dressed people sipping frothy cappuccinos in the sunshine, doesn’t...
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Tapa Thursdays: Pescaíto
One thing that stuck out about my host mother and her eating habits was that she’d fry a fish and just suck the meat right off the bones, leaving the head. Emily and I claimed we were allergic to fish...
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Tapa Thursdays: Caracoles
Spain is a country in which some foods are seasonal: pumpkins are ripest around Autumn, chestnuts are peddled on the street at Christmastime and strawberries show up on the market in February or March....
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Andalusia: Off the Eaten Path
Spring is here, and while it brings all the things I love – sunny afternoon coffees over charlita, the springtime fairs and romerias and renewed ganas to trip around Andalucia, there’s one thing that I...
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Betting on Lunch at the Lonja de Pescado of Calpe
YA vienennnnnn! At the sound of the bell, plastic crates of fish and shellfish descended on a thin conveyor belt. Date prrrriiiiiisaaaaa! Hurry! I screeched to the Novio, having already informed Mikel...
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Tapa Thursdays: Gazpacho
I have never been one to stand up to the hot summer sun in Seville. I made the poor decision one year to cycle home from my friend Stacy’s house at 3pm. In August. Trying to beat the Sevici’s 30-minute...
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From Wine Tasting to Extraordinary Architecture: Discovering the Douro Valley
Author’s Note: Seville wasn’t always the object of my Spanish affection: I spent six weeks living with a host family in Valladolid, perfecting my castellano accent and drinking copious amounts of...
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Tapa Thursdays: A Gastronomic Experience at Restaurant Puerto Blanco in Calpe
The Novio does’t understand my “world.” He doesn’t understand why I’m a smartphone addict, why I take pictures of details, and why I spent my hard-earned cash (hard-earned on a slot machine in Vegas,...
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Eating Coruña: The City’s Best Restaurants
Galician food makes my heart flutter – the piping hot pimientos del padrón, raxo smothered in roquefort sauce, fresh-caught shellfish displayed in every window of every bar on every street. There are...
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Tapa Thursdays: Heladería Llinares and its Wacky Ice Cream Flavors
Outside of Italy, I’d never seen a group of camera-clad tourists so fascinated by a street side ice cream display. In a city known for its rice dishes, avant-garde architecture and brash fireworks...
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Tapa Thursdays: El Gallinero de Sandra
El Gallinero de Sandra – Sandra’s Chicken Coop – was what I expected to be an over-priced, chicken-heavy restaurant. Always one to try a new place and follow my group of American chicks around, I went...
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Tapa Thursdays: My Most Memorable Spanish Meal
I squinted, trying to make out the words on the menu as the sunlight reflected off the bay near Mogán, a small port on the southern end of Gran Canaria island. Enrique gave me a quick tsk and a shake...
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The five best Spanish foods I never knew existed
I’m pleased to give some space to my friend and fellow Midwesterner, Katie Stearns. Our first meeting was serendipitous and mostly based around a shared interest: food. When not working in marketing,...
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Picking Winter Fruit in Southern Spain
In the winter months, citrus fruits, figs, mushrooms and chestnuts are ripe and ready to be picked. Olive oil harvests begin, and crops like pumpkins, avocados and leeks begin to pop up in...
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A Cooking Day in Málaga: Preparing Spanish Dishes in Andalucía
Spain is a country that’s easy to get lost in. I don’t mean the culture or the romanticism – I mean, GPS systems are absolute crap, and it’s easier to end up on the wrong road than it is to arrive to...
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Tapas Thursday: Sampling La Brunilda
I have visited so many places whose names ring famous, and usually have felt like something was missing. When it comes to food, I’m beginning to have high expectations. In Seville, a city that’s home...
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Tapa Thursdays: Room Art Cuisine
With the hiring of MaCuro’s head chef, ROOM Art Cuisine went from an American food bar to one of the center’s newest gastrobars only steps away from Plaza Salvador. When my friends and I used to meet...
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