The reign of Spain
Posted on Thursday, January 11 @ Hora estándar romance by webmaster |
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Spain now rivals Italy as a food lover's destination.
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Spain now rivals Italy as a food lover's destination, with tourists lured by the gastronomic renown of towns like San Sebastian. Steve Winston, who opened the Spanish Table in Seattle in 1995 and now has four stores -- including one each in Berkeley and Mill Valley -- attributes much of his business growth to the fame of avant-garde Spanish chef Ferran Adrià. "El Bulli (Adrià's restaurant) changed everything," says Winston. "It made people really aware of Spanish cooking and raised its image a huge amount."
Each year, more than a million Americans visit Spain, says Winston, and they come home with the desire to duplicate the dishes they tasted there, especially paella. Any ingredient related to paella sells briskly at the Spanish Table, from Valencia rice, saffron, paprika and chorizo to the wide-bottomed paella pans themselves. Today's customers, to Winston's astonishment, are buying one pan for their kitchen and another, bigger one for cooking outdoors. "I never expected to sell more than one pan to a person, but we do," says the retailer.
With the imminent arrival, anticipated for May of this year, of the first imported jamon iberico -- Spain's most esteemed air-dried ham -- the Spanish pantry in America will be all but complete. If you haven't stocked up yet, spaincolours.com will steer you to some of the best foodstuffs from Spain.
Note: from sfgate.com
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