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We are interested in what we eat and what we drink, although very often we do not know the origin of products that are so common to us. Thus, in this section we discover anectdotes, up-to-date news and stories of the Catalonian gastronomy, as well as characters and associations.
PUMPKIN, ARTICHOKES AND SPINACH
With the advent of winter we tend to relate the kitchen with abundant food and calories, which protect us from the cold. However, there are many healthy vegetables in our winter cuisine that make us feel just,...
THE HISTORY OF BLEACH
According to the legend, during the year 1000 B.C. women cleaned their clothes in the Tiber River at the foot of Sapo Mountain, a place where animals were burned as a sacrifice to gods. This way, the rain water mixed with the ashes at the altar,...
COOKING TIPS
Cooking is an art that sometimes we can develop if we have the necessary skills. However, it’s always helpful to know a few tricks that can help us to prepare delicate and tasty dishes...
THE DELIGHTS OF DUCK
Duck meat is consumed in many parts of the world and stands out for its content of good quality of protein and vitamins. Duck meat contains water-soluble vitamins (especially thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin B12) and,...
THE "PICADAS" AS A GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system that allows us to determinate a position, an object, a person, etc. Inside a determinate geographical zone and fixate it with differentiated precision. Possibly the same happens in the kitchen,...
STIR-FRY VERSUS "MARCA"
The stir-fry is the essential basis with which most dishes are elaborated in Mediterranean cuisine. Furthermore, we could say that there is no stew without a stir-fry and it is, then, one of the basic and necessary sauces in fish stews, meat, pasta and rice. Especially in Catalunya,...
COFFEE WITHOUT CAFFEINE
How to get a coffee with al its aroma and taste, but without caffeine which, on the other hand, characterises the product itself, has been a constant in the leading brands that commercialise this pleasant drink. In the eighteenth century the German chemist Ferdinand Runge began...
THREE KINGS CAKE. HISTORY AND ORIGINS
What would be of January the 6th without traditional family meals, gifts of the 3 Kings and the famous Three Kings Cake with its hidden bean and its crown? The Three Kings Cake, which has a tradition of more than 500 years, has several versions as to its origin,...
THE POISON OF THE BEE AND ITS QUALITIES
It is well known by all of us just how painful the bee sting is, an efficient defence system that has helped this species survive during millions of years on our planet. In only one bee sting, with its sting, he is capable of rendering from 0.1 mg to 0.15mg of poison...
ALMADROC SAUCE, A MEDIEVAL DISH
The Almadroc sauce is a medieval recipe, published in the book Sent Soví as a sauce made with grated cheese, a bit of garlic, hard boiled egg and olive oil. Used as a dip for all kinds of meat, like nowadays the garlic sauce “allioli “, it was known under the names “almadroc” or “ almodrote”,...
THE PIG CONFRONTING JUSTICE
It is often been said that the pig is the animal that most like humans. Maybe for this reason, there was a time in which this omnivorous animal was treated as a person. Doctor Cabañas describes in his work “History’s indiscretions”,...
SUNDAY'S ROASTED CHICKEN
Roasted chicken is a global dish that appears in all the cultures of the world; cooked or accompanied of different ingredients, according to the region. Thousands of recipes exist on roasted chicken with their variants depending,...
FROM THE "BOS TAURUS PRIMIGENIUS" TO THE COW
“Bos taurus” is a species of mammal from the “Bovidae” family. Usually domestic, although in some cases they are found wild, breeded throughout the world for their meat, milk and skin...
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