EXPANDING HORIZONS : Do you know your Spanish onions?
WE are in full calçot season. These giant spring onions are cultivated in Valls, near Tarragona and are enjoyed from Figuerès to Fuengirola. At this time of year, people drive for miles
EXPANDING HORIZONS: Spain’s ‘golden thread’ enjoys a resurgence as home-grown saffron gains ground
FROM the bouillabaisse fish soup of Southern France to the biryani rice dishes of South Asia there is a common thread (literally); the dried stigma threads from the crocus flower known as
EXPANDING HORIZONS: What a difference breakfast makes from the UK to France and Spain, writes Susannah Grant
I CAN and have eaten snake’s blood for lunch and worms for dinner but breakfast is sacred. On a weekend, ideally it would include lashings of Bovril drizzled over hot-buttered brown toast…I
Susannah goes to Mars: The task of tracking down British chocolate in Spain
WHEN I first landed on Spanish shores at the end of the 1980s it was very difficult to find any snacks on the street, especially in train or metro stations. I had
Expanding horizons: Musings from Suze on life in Spain
Susannah Grant looks back on her early days in Spain and marvels at how far, both she and her adopted country have come.