As the holiday season draws to a close, we are finishing up the last of the Christmas goodies – including one of our favorites torrone. It’s a pretty simple confection made of egg whites, honey, almonds and sugar. Popular across Southern Europe, this almond nougat is known as Turrón (Spanish), torró (Catalan), or torrone (Italian).The [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Spain’
September 19, 2008
[Road Trip Eats] Spain: Despaña
Despaña
408 Broome St.
New York, NY
Though Chicago boasts a wide variety of specialty grocery stores offering Mexican and Central American foods, there are no continental Spanish groceries. So we were excited to check out Despaña in SoHo, NYC. The store itself is small but uncluttered with a large deli case on one side and shelves of [...]
April 11, 2008
FTC: Wisconsin Cheese Plate – To Spain and Back
Did you know that April is grilled cheese month? Well it is! In honor of this sacred month, the Eaters have compiled a lovely little cheese plate consisting of both Wisconsin-bred and Spanish cheeses (we <3 Manchego, what can we say), complete with festive flags. We also selected several World Champ Cheese Contest contenders, marked [...]
November 24, 2007
FTC: Orxata de xufes.
Right now I (L) am craving orxata de xufes (horchata de chufas), a Spanish drink of tigernuts and sugar with water. It is extremely uncommon (at least I’ve never seen it) in the US, where the Mexican horchata, which is rice-based, dominates. True, it’s a warm weather drink, and it’s freezing cold here – [...]
