Spain offers a cornucopia of tasty delights for the adventurous palate. Anita Roy visited to widen her horizons—and her waistline
The reason for my recent trip to Spain was, ostensibly, to do some nature writing. But after a week, my bathroom scales told a different story. Between the crusty bread-and tomato breakfasts, the fragrant paella lunches and the morsels of tempting tapas liberally sprinkled throughout, Nature, I confess, didn’t stand a chance.
I landed in Madrid, first, to spend a few days with my friend, Eugenia. Her attempts to show me the sights—the spectacular Palacio Real, the basilicas and cathedrals, the tree-lined tracks winding through Retiro Park, Madrid’s ‘green lung’—were stymied by my inability to pass a food shop without stopping. In the run-up to Easter, the patisseries go crazy, piling up all kinds of festive pastries to tempt the unwary passerby: torrijas (made either with milk or wine), pestiños, huesos de santo (literally ‘saint bones’!), rosquillas, buñuelos, lechefrita…
“What are those?” I pointed to a pile of sugar encrusted loops, lying like rope in one window. “Churros,” Eugenia explained. “They’re basically deep-fried fat dipped in chocolate.” My mouth was willing but my arteries quailed, so we settled instead for a bag of tejas—‘roof tiles’—thin curled biscuits, a little like langues de chat, which were both crisp and soft simultaneously, melting on the tongue with a burst of vanilla and crushed almond.
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