You are living in a place that is not Spain and your moral is weakening? You are surprised that you are not only missing the warm weather, the sun and the “fiesta” but the food! What you could really need right now is a nice glas of Rioja and a plate full of Iberian Ham ! Hence we put together the definit list of Spanish foods you should always have in your pantry yet surrviving without them is nearly impossible:
More than the half of the calls the Spanish airlines get are from clients asking with a nearly fading voice if: a) they can take a iberian ham with them or b) if iberian ham is known in the country of destiny. This pretty gives a clue about how imortant the ham is in the Spanish culture.
Maybe it is a bit cliche but sure you shed a tear or two remembering the Spanish tidbits. Eventually you are missing the tortilla, the mussels, the plate of air dried sausages and manchego cheese, the olives or the octopus. Going out to have “tapas” and “pinchos” is something crutial to do in Spain.
Never take nothing for granted. Especially when you are thinking that you can find a tasty, thick tomato sauce in every supermarket. Don’t get me wrong, you sure find a tomato sauce everywhere even tough it will not be the same. Since you are looking for this very special Spanish tomato sauce you probably get disapointed.
It is hard to find a decent olive oil, without spendig your months earnings, outside the delicatessen section. But you know probably you can have butter with your iberian ham sandwich…
What kind of sunday afternoon does not include a sofa, a blanket and a bag of roasted sunflower seeds (called pipas)? And who would have told you that you’d miss something so small just as sunflower seeds (but roasted and salted please).
Until now you thought that you grew out of having hot chocolate for breakfast. But since you’ve tried colacao you catch yourself winded up nostalgically thinking about the little lumps.
After reading this lines you are remembering your Erasmus time or your last holliday in Spain and all you want to so is get back there as soon as possible? Don’t worry, you can find everything and more of this typical Spanish products on GastronomicSpain.com.
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