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      Pimientos del Padrón

      Ingredients
      1 lb. Padrón peppers (80-100 peppers)
      3-4 cups olive oil
      Salt, large grain rock, Kosher, sel de mer, etc.
      Clean the peppers by rinsing them lightly. Dry them completely so they won’t splatter when they hit the hot oil. Leave the stems attached.
      Place the olive oil in a large skillet suitable for deep frying, like a cast iron [...]

      Review: ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’

      The Barcelona Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Wine and Life. Sasa Mahr-Batuz, Andy Pforzheimer. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0740773945
      A cookbook about Barcelona? With recipes of all those great things I ate when I was there this spring? When I first heard about ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’ that’s exactly what [...]

      Recipe: Padrón Peppers

      Are they Italian or Spanish? I was *confused and still am. I first had something like pimientos del Padrón in Ravello, Italy while on a three week trip to France and Italy with my friend, Chef Jeremiah Tower. We spent the day driving along the Amalfi Coast stopping in at all the [...]

      Barcelona – Eats!

      Tapas! Cervecerias! Tortillas! Patatas bravas! Pimientos del padrón! Montaditos! Jamón ibérico! Delicous eats of Barcelona. I feel I have slighted Spain and Barcelona in recent blog posts. They’ve all been about our incredible time in the Languedoc. Well, now it’s time to give Barcelona a bit of face time. And [...]

      Spain

      I hate flying. And I don’t particularly relish staying in hotel rooms. Being a tourist is not a favorite pastime either. But I still love to travel. What I really like is being in a place. Letting the effects of a place slowly seep into my awareness, slowly take over [...]