“Reach into your memory and come up with … what food actually regenerated your system, not so you can leap tall buildings, but so you can turn off the alarm clock with vigor.”
- Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked
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Posted in Alba, Garlic, Italian, Italy, Olive Oil, Puglia, Pugliese, celery, culture, lemon, octopus, salad, seafood, tourism, travel, winter on Feb 25th, 2009
Looking for a ray of sunshine in your diet?
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Posted in Galician, Gallego, Jose Andres, Madrid, Olive Oil, Recipe, Spain, boiled, culture, healthy, octopus, paprika, pimenton, pulpo, racione, seafood, soccer, tapas, tourism, travel on Oct 23rd, 2008
The first time I ate pulpo a la gallega was at a very disreputable-looking food stand not far from the Estadio Balaídos in Vigo, Spain, before watching a soccer match between Celta de Vigo and Racing Santander (it finished 2-2). It was served on a slightly wilted plastic plate with a toothpick that looked suspiciously [...]
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