Post by Owen on Jun 5, 2024 10:56:07 GMT
1 ~~~ Savouring Spain's secret flavours on the picturesque Costa de la Luz
The sun-kissed wildness, supreme produce and loveable patriarchs of southern Spain’s Costa de la Luz dazzle
The chef José Pizarro buzzes through the covered market in Barbate at speed – past flamenco buskers holding their guitars up to their chins, and pomegranates, dragon fruit and crab’s feet – making a beeline for razor clams and bluefin tuna, called atún rojo in Spain for its ruby flesh.
The bluefin and its almadraba fishing method have been prized for centuries in these coastal towns.
Barbate, like nearby Conil, Zahara and Tarifa, is built around this ancient practice.
And, after some years of controlled fishing, the spring harvest is back: a great haul of enormous fish, many weighing up to 450 pounds, which spend winter in the depths of the Atlantic, building a buttery layer of fat that makes the belly, the ventrecha, meltingly good.
www.cntraveller.com/article/costa-de-la-luz?
25 May 2024
The sun-kissed wildness, supreme produce and loveable patriarchs of southern Spain’s Costa de la Luz dazzle
The chef José Pizarro buzzes through the covered market in Barbate at speed – past flamenco buskers holding their guitars up to their chins, and pomegranates, dragon fruit and crab’s feet – making a beeline for razor clams and bluefin tuna, called atún rojo in Spain for its ruby flesh.
The bluefin and its almadraba fishing method have been prized for centuries in these coastal towns.
Barbate, like nearby Conil, Zahara and Tarifa, is built around this ancient practice.
And, after some years of controlled fishing, the spring harvest is back: a great haul of enormous fish, many weighing up to 450 pounds, which spend winter in the depths of the Atlantic, building a buttery layer of fat that makes the belly, the ventrecha, meltingly good.
www.cntraveller.com/article/costa-de-la-luz?
25 May 2024