9 February, 2017
chef year e

Andalucia’s Angel Leon crowned European Chef of the Year

One of Andalucia’s culinary maestros has been crowned European Chef of the Year for his ‘enlightened’ approach to gastronomy
8 February, 2017
huelva

Huelva crowned Spain’s gastronomy capital

Huelva, which is home to Michelin-starred Acanthum restaurant, will hold the esteemed title for the whole of 2017.
7 February, 2017
olive oil

Olive oil masterclass launched in Benalmadena

A new Malaga cooking school is rustling up its own recipe for promoting extra virgin olive oil.
6 February, 2017
algae cakes

Spanish pastry chef puts seaweed cakes on the menu

Seaweed is the shock secret ingredient in patisserie maestro Carles Mampel’s groundbreaking new repertoire of gourmet sweets, biscuits and cakes.
5 February, 2017
blue wine gik

Spain bans blue wine for being the ‘wrong colour’

Traded as Gik, the blend of red and white wine comes from grapes produced in the La Rioja, Leon and Castilla-La Mancha regions. But authorities say it is the ‘wrong colour’, and therefore cannot be advertised as wine.
4 February, 2017
debrettes list

Bilbao cook named on Debrett’s 2017 most influential chefs list

Nieves Barragan Mohacho joins the likes of Mary Berry and Jamie Oliver in the peerage publishers’ annual roll call which recognises Britain’s 500 most influential people in their field, from finance and books to science and food
1 February, 2017
Milk

Milking it: The varied and contradictory uses of ‘leche’ in Spanish

Despite the fact that Spaniards have a much lower consumption-per-capita than the UK they are, idiomatically at least, obsessed with milk
24 January, 2017
china exports

China second biggest importer of Malaga produce

Food and drink exports to the country more than doubled in the first 10 months of 2016 compared to the previous year, according to data from the Spanish Ministry of Commerce and Industry
22 January, 2017
moscatel Botani

Velez Malaga wine Botani voted one of best in world

Jorge Ordonez’ dry moscatel Botani was chosen by globally-renowned wine critic Robert Parker as one of his top three 2016 wines selling at under $20 a bottle
20 January, 2017
Francis Paniego

Three Michelin Star chef Francis Paniego challenges foreign cooks to invent new Spanish fusion cuisine

Three Michelin Star-ranked Francis Paniego of Echaurren in Ezcaray (La Rioja) wants cooks abroad to put their own twist on traditional recipes to invent new fusion cuisines
19 January, 2017
María José Sevilla

Long-serving UK director of Food and Wines from Spain to step down from role

Hailed as the country’s ‘unofficial ambassador’, she worked for the Trade Commission of the Spanish Embassy in the UK for 30 years, the last 17 as director
16 January, 2017
sparklng wine

English sparkling wine explodes onto international market

English sparkling wine has arrived in Spain after sales boomed to more than €115 million last year.