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Some local tipples

by Chris Thompson in food and wine, Living in Spain

  After eleven years in Pinoso I came across a bar that I had never been in before. I was on coffee but the locals were drinking something new to me; Cantueso. It turns out that Cantueso is a typical Alicante drink protected by Denominación de Origen or D.O. status which means that there are […]

Eating for tyros

by Chris Thompson in food and wine, Information, Living in Spain

The English are ironic. The French don’t like to wash. Germans are humourless and efficient. Well so they say. But the chances are that it’s not actually true. There are some generalisations of course that are generally true. For instance punctuality is important, culturally important, in some countries and completely irrelevant in others. Punctuality doesn’t […]

BBC travel – Paco Gandia Pinoso

by Brenda in food and wine, Living in Spain

The humblest paella beloved by chefs By Matthew Bremner for BBC travel 17 May 2016 Josefa Navarro was hunched over a large stove in the long, narrow kitchen of her restaurant, Paco Gandia, stirring a murky broth of rabbit and snails in a large paellera. The shallow pan was balanced on a small, blackened frame […]

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