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Simple Guide to Olive Oil, Part 1
This 4-part course is all about everything you ever wanted to know about olive oil facts. It’s a simple guide to a super food! In Part 1, I’ll be answering many of your essential questions with fact-based answers. In Part 2, I’ll show you how olive oil is made. In Part 3, you’ll learn how […]
Simple Guide to Olive Oil: Part 2
In Part 2 of my class on extra virgin olive oil, the “Simple Guide to a Super Food: EVOO”, you’ll be learning all about how extra virgin olive oil is made as we follow the process direct from our farm in the Spanish hills above the Mediterranean sea from tree to table. Then we’ll finish […]
Easiest Way to Stock Your Mediterranean Pantry
This is hands-down the easiest way to follow the world’s best Mediterranean diet when you stock your pantry like we do in Spain. Join me for PART TWO of “Eating the Mediterranean Way Every Day” where I show you just how easy it is to follow Spain’s incredibly healthy Mediterranean Diet which was just named […]
True ALMOND NOUGAT CANDY – TURRON – and SPANISH CHRISTMAS COOKIES can ONLY BE FOUND in JIJONA Spain!
If you want to learn how true almond nougat candy and Spanish Christmas cookies are made the traditional way, come along with me to visit the oldest producer in Jijona Alicante Spain. Primitivo Rovira, a 6th generation member of the family that started the business in 1850, gives a complete guided tour of the whole […]
Toss the Candy Canes. Try Turronés.
In Spain, the Christmas season lasts from early December until Jan. 6 and features a dizzying array of culinary traditions throughout the extended holiday. Christmas dinners are typically celebrated on the eve with either a traditional bird or a mélange of seafood, depending on regional customs. Twelve grapes are eaten at the stroke of midnight on […]
The Yellow Brick Road to Cuenca
Road trips across the Spanish countryside often bring surprises. Like driving along for hours smack in the middle of acres upon acres of spent sunflowers withering in the fields, as harvesters scooped up the bounty for Spain’s sizable nut and oil production. We were on our way to the UNESCO World Heritage city of Cuenca, but […]
