Over 100 years ago, a young woman in a town near Seville started making and selling snacks called tortas de aceite, using an old family recipe. Made from nothing more than flour, water, sugar and olive oil, with a little aniseed and…
Festive Seville: Mapping and Food Fairs
Happy New Year to all my lovely readers! I hope you had a wonderful festive season, spending lots of time with your friends and family. A couple of posts ago, I listed all the events that were going on in…
What to do in Seville during the December Puente – and over Christmas
This weekend is a bank holiday in Spain – a double one, with two (legitimate) days off – today, Friday, and Monday. First, Dia de la Constitucion (6 December), celebrating Spain’s Constitution; then Dia la Concepcion Inmaculada (8 December) – a…
The underside of Seville: City of Sorrows, inside the gypsies’ world
The popular image of Seville, the one tourists see, and which appears on blogs like this, in guidebooks and apps, in newspaper and magazine articles, is of lively fiestas, fragrant orange blossom, windy cobbled streets, beautiful patios, tapas, and bullfighting…