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Tapa Thursdays: Champiñones
If I were to list the three foods I most despised, it would be easy: canned tuna, eggs and mushrooms. Yes, I picked three of the most commonly used ingredients in Spanish cuisine, and the only big...
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Seville Snapshots: When in Rome…
I have to admit that Seville has been less-than-inspiring lately. Between the master’s and work, plus rainy weather and holing up with a recently-returned Novio, I’ve barely even been in the center! So...
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Tapas Thursday: Eating Italy
Little known fact about me: Italian food is as much a part of my family’s table fare as meat and potatoes. And I have not one ounce of sangue italiano in me. There’s two parts to this story: firstly,...
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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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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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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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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: 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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Tapa Thursdays: Castañas
cred where cred’s due I never knew that ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’ was actually a thing until moving to Seville. When the weather turns crisp (which finally happened last week), peddlers...
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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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Tapa Thursday: A Field Guide to Spanish Christmas Treats
Two weeks ago, I couldn’t find the aisle that is home to eggs and milk in my local supermarket. I walked in circles, desperate to locate what was needed for the Novio to make me croquetas. The aisle...
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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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Tapa Thursdays: Free Munchies in Seville
When I moved to Seville, I imagined I’d nibble on cheese and cured meats as I had a glass of beer, munch on free tapas and never have to go to the grocery store. Andalucía would practically be enticing...
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Tapa Thursdays: Sol y Sombra
Some places have now become tradition with me and the Novio when we have guests – everyone from a sorority sister and her husband to my own mother have had lunch in Sol y Sombra, a restaurant in the...
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