Arcadia Spain
Cooking Up Spanish Cuisine
Date
March 31, 2015
From Chocolates to Champagne
As we're slowly but surely heading towards the end of the semester, a lot is going on here in wintery (unfortunately!) Barcelona. Our students are planning their last trips, starting to miss Barcelona already though are still fully engaged in a lot of great, exciting activities.
On Wednesday 25 we learned how to cook some truly local Spanish dishes: potato omelette (tortilla española), paella (the star of Spanish gastronomy) and crema catalana, a delicious local version of crème brûlée. The two 'teams' debated who did the best job but the outcome was clear: both did great and the dishes were delicious!
Than, on Friday March 27, also in line with gastronomy, we took our students to a Cava winery as well as a chocolate factory. Cava is the Catalan version of champagne and it is considered to be a very high quality. Wine and Cava export are a very big business and Catalonia - the climate and soil conditions are perfect, production is abundant, and of course it's very good.