A Bridge Between Two Tables: The Wines of Spain and Portugal

Three thousand years is a long time to keep doing something the same way, and yet the Iberian Peninsula has never really stopped. Phoenician traders planted the first vines along these coasts around 1100 BCE, and every civilization that followed — Romans, Visigoths, Moors, monks, Christian kings, British merchants — added something rather than starting [...] read more

The Cured Meats of Spain & Portugal

Almost every farmhouse across Spain and Portugal once kept a pig of its own — fattened through autumn, slaughtered at the first cold snap, and turned, cut by cut, into a year’s worth of protein that had to survive without a refrigerator. That single necessity became a craft, then a culture, then a source of [...] read more