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Welcome to Saboroso's foody features page. Each month we will be adding a new piece on the fascinating world of Spanish food and wine, building up an invaluable and illuminating archive of information for food and wine fans. Keep checking back to find out what's new.
Garum: Roman Barcelona's sexy sauce The original Roman Garum was not an attractive condiment. Lets face it, to the average, lily-livered stomach of modern man, there can be few things more revolting than the thought of a squirt of fermented fish guts over your patatas, which is basically what garum was. Even for the entrails-loving Romans, the smell of garum during the process of fermentation was said to be so foul that the common folk were actually outlawed from making it in their own homes... (more)
Xampany - Barcelona's Aladdin's Cave of Cava Some great things have come about by accident - the discovery of penicillin, Newton's theory of gravity, Columbus' landing in the New World... and Xampany. This treasure trove of a wine shop was born one day on Avenida Diagonal when someone drove straight into the back of Josep Maria Espelta's car, destroying the cargo of cava he had stashed in the boot... (more)
A Catalan Christmas dinner starts after midnight mass on Nochebuena (Christmas Eve) with escudella i carn d'olla, the soupy-stew eaten in two parts that's a veritable cornerstone of Catalan cuisine and culture. It has been called everything from one of Catalunya's "culinary chromosomes" to an "extract of a thousand essences"... (more) |