Before we moved to Valencia, we’d visited Spain quite a few times. We’d been to Madrid, Andalusia, Asturias, Barcelona, Valencia, and various other places around the country. We’d eaten plenty of tapas, pinchos, jamón, chorizo, and more plates of things involving pork than I could possibly remember. But somehow, we’d never encountered sobrasada, or atContinue reading “Sobrasada: The Sausage We Somehow Missed”
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Cheese Expectations: Spain’s Dairy Overachievers
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I lived in Portugal for years, and I love Portuguese cheese. I do. From the soft and runny decadence of Serra da Estrela, to the salty firmness of São Jorge, to those lightly aged sheep cheeses that land somewhere between a custard and a dream, there’s someContinue reading “Cheese Expectations: Spain’s Dairy Overachievers”