A cut above the rest
The best hams should have a shiny dark red-brown colour, speckled with tiny white flecks from eating fatty acorns.
My Spanish Christmas
Cooking at home should be fun, and if we could all learn to enjoy the time we spend in our kitchens, the end results would far more rewarding.
Food
Get cooking with the American chef in Majorca
Learn to cook Asparagus Risotto with Jeff Harter.
Food
Get cooking with the American chef in Majorca
Jeff cooks some traditional Spanish dishes for a birthday party.
Food for thought
Get your veggies with a menestra
There is no single recipe for a menestra and the dishes that go under this name are more than simple variations on a theme. All of them make use of vegetables in season and some include other ingredients for which a particular area is famous.
Food for thought
The secrets in two fish stews
Fish soups and stews in Catalonia have a long pedigree and there is an amazing variety of versions along the Costa Brava and inland.
Food & Fosh
Fabada heaven & dirty rice
Good quality chorizo and morcilla (black pudding) is the key to a great fabada.
Food for Thought
Spanish dishes for frosty winter days
This is the time of year when Spanish traditional dishes called platos de cuchara (dishes eaten with a spoon) are invariably on domestic menus — and on the blackboards of many restaurants.
- Another body found by a Mallorca beach
- As the town hall announces 21 million euros investment, Playa de Palma residents denounce drugs and homelessness
- The growing problem in the Balearics of the illegal marketing of second homes as tourist accommodation
- Sunday weather in Mallorca - Feeling some effect from Storm Jana
- Balearic government plans big increase in tax on cruise ship passengers and even a cash levy on hire cars