Summer Salad from French Catalonia

Hot summer days demand cool salads and one couldn’t do better than the one I first encountered in the village of Collioure in southern France. There I had a salade Collioure, Collioure being a small French Catalan fishing village on the Côte Vermeille, the coastal Mediterranean of the French province of Roussillon which is considered […]

Luscious Autumn Pork Dish from Catalonia

This typical family meal from Catalonia is best cooked in an earthenware casserole. The sauce becomes syrupy, the pork and eggplant melting away–it’s very delicious. The pork should be accompanied with rice cooked in a court-bouillon of water, fresh coriander, orange peel, saffron and black pepper. Porc a la Catalunya   Print Prep time 15 […]

Going to the Market in Barcelona

I first went to Barcelona in 1957 with my parents and I actually have a memory from that time because we went on board a replica of the Columbus’ Santa Maria which was very cool. We also went on board a US Navy frigate for some reason, probably so my US Air Force father could […]

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