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Catalonia Is Gastronomy Catalonia is gastronomy Gastronomic Tourism Club Catalogue 2010 «A country’s cuisine is its landscape in a pot» Josep Pla © Agència Catalana de Turisme 2010 © Generalitat de Catalunya 2010 Catalonia is a country with traditions going back more than a thousand years, a land with its own culture and language that enjoys a mild Mediterranean climate and an unrivalled natural diversity. It is a country built on a wealth of contrasts that make the customs, traditions and people of Catalonia absolutely unique. To enter Catalan territory is to immerse oneself in an unimaginable sea of possibilities: to discover charming villages; to commune with nature; to discover the country’s architectural heritage, music and deeply rooted traditions; to do business; or, simply, to relax by the sea. The features that differentiate Catalonia, making our country stand out from the rest, are also evident in the region's culinary culture: sea and mountain; tradition and innovation; and a wealth of quality local products. On the following pages you will find information about food and drink in Catalonia as well as the Catalan Tourist Board’s Gastronomic Tourism Club. The members of this club are out- standing chefs and a network of businesses that promote Catalan cuisine in general by organising cookery classes, brunches, wine tastings, wine and food routes and a host of other activities guaranteed to both enrich your culture and stimulate all your senses. To sample Catalonia’s gastronomic delights is such an extraordinary experience that it will leave you speechless. Give it a try! Catalonia’s gastronomic culture: unique and truly different. Try it! catalonia Val d’Aran Andorra France Pirineus Costa Brava Girona Terres de Lleida Catalunya Central Lleida Costa de Barcelona - Maresme Costa del Garraf Barcelona Costa Daurada Tarragona Terres de l’Ebre Mediterranean Sea Catalonia cataloniais gastronomy contents Food and drink tourism: something for all tastes 6 Catalan cuisine: traditional fare that both surprises and delights the palate 10 The fruits of the earth. Landscapes to eat 14 Wine tourism: wine routes 18 Gastronomic Tourism Club Gastronomic Tourism Club: directory of members 24 Food and drink tourism: something for all tastes Cuisine is geography, history and culture. To taste and enjoy a country’s culinary products is to explore all its traditions at once. We warmly invite you to enjoy food and drink tourism in Catalonia. Discovering a country’s food and drink; by Dish” route, established in Empordà browsing its market stalls; purchasing, county in honour of another great Cata- tasting and chatting to culinary ex- lan author: Josep Pla. perts, exploring wine routes... all this is food and wine tourism. Catalonia Food fairs boasts a host of gastronomic activities, many of them offered by the country’s Amongst the most outstanding and in- over nineteen food clubs, which bring ternationally acclaimed culinary events together local restaurants and other is the Alimentària Barcelona Food establishments engaged in the culinary Fair, which takes place every two world to enable visitors to discover the years. Drawing over 150,000 visitors, cuisine of each different region first hand. Alimentària has become acknowl- edged as an international benchmark The culinary and catering industries aimed particularly at industry profes- are always coming up with ways of sionals. The Catalan capital also hosts enabling visitors to enjoy gastronomic Barcelona Degusta, the first food pleasures, and this innovative approach show in Spain that offers the general has been adopted by a number of res- public a unique opportunity to taste, taurants in Catalonia. A good example purchase and learn all about food, cui- is the so-called “dark dining”, a sensory sine and gastronomy. Another leading food experience that heightens all din- event, particularly for the high stand- ers’ senses except for one: sight. How- ard of participants and its innovative ever, for those who prefer to see and approach, is Girona Gastronomic note down everything, many restau- Forum. The participants at the forum rants and cookery schools also offer include around 200 exhibitors and courses where professional chefs re- some 250 accredited journalists, and veal some of their secrets. Alternatively, activities include talks, live cooking visitors can go on gastronomic-literary demonstrations offered by the world’s journeys, for example by taking the finest chefs, and product tastings. Carvalho Route in Barcelona, which Another essential event is the Sea pays homage to the writer Manuel Forum in Cambrils, an international Vázquez Montalbán, or the Pla “Dish meeting point for culinary experts. Flavours of the land in the catalan markets 7 SUGGESTION Make sure you don’t miss a thing! For years now, Turisme de Catalunya has published its Gastronomic Calendar, provi- ding information on more than 300 food and wine activities and shows that take place all over Catalonia. Download this calendar of events from the Catalan Tourist Board’s devoted food and wine tourism website. Further information www.gastronomia.catalunya.com Delicious dishes for every season of the year In autumn, mushrooms The four culinary Winter is similarly rich in culinary arrive; in winter, it seasons events, boasting such festivals as the calçotada (calçots are long, sweet is time for calçotades The imagination of restaurateurs and onions that are grilled over red-hot and xatonades; spring the most deeply-rooted traditions embers) in Valls, steeped in a century- find expression in the culinary shows old tradition; olive oil festivals and awakens with tasty and popular food festivals that take shows in the Terres de l’Ebre region fruit, and summer place all over Catalonia. It would be and Lleida; xatonades (xató is the tra- difficult to explore this country without ditional local salad, made from esca- explodes with festivals stumbling upon one of the culinary role, tuna and cod salad) on the Costa by the sea. events that are held throughout del Garraf and in the Penedès region; the year and whose primary goal is the unusual Àpats dels Pobres (tra- to delight the senses. ditionally, meals served to the poor by the feudal lords) featuring rice dishes; The arrival of autumn brings with it and, early in spring, Carnival ranxó most of the country’s edible mushroom casseroles, with white botifarra types, and, in turn, mushroom shows sausage and omelettes; as well as and competitions. Examples include countless cod dishes. the Llenega (Knight-cap) Mushroom Fair in Cardona (Bages county); the many The explosion of spring brings with mushroom festivals in Berguedà county, it the most luscious fruits; strawber- such as the famous mushroom compe- ries from Maresme county, the first tition in Puigventós; and the mushroom to ripen, and cherries, as summer festival in Setcases (Ripollès). approaches, plentiful not only in Baix 8 Catalonian is gastronomy SUGGESTION Llobregat county, where they dye the portunity to drink wine from the tradi- fields red, but also in Ribera d’Ebre, tional glass pitcher, or porró, which Segrià, Terra Alta, Alt Camp and Em- has a long, narrow spout for drinking pordà. Spring is also a season rich in from and a thick neck for filling the celebrations related to Catalan cui- recipient. Such events also give us the sine. These include the Snail Festival chance to sample some of the finest in Lleida and the fish casserole (su- charcuterie in the different Catalan quet) season in Empordà county. regions. For instance, the llonganissa dry-cured sausage competition in Bel- Sea and Mountain Finally, summer arrives, and villages lver de Cerdanya. Nor should we for- Visitors will enjoy the delights of the sea and towns all over Catalonia begin get the outstanding festivals that take and the gastronomic products. Examples of this combination are the garoinades to celebrate traditional reaping and place by the sea in summer. Holiday- (sea urchin festivals) on the Costa Brava, threshing festivals, such as those makers on the coast can savour deli- the Festa de la Galera (mantis shrimp day) in Fuliola (Urgell), Avià and Gósol cious suquet (casserole), rice paella or in Sant Carles de la Ràpita and Cambrils, (Berguedà), Sant Climent de Peralta assorted seafood platters (mariscada) and the king prawns, oysters and mussels eaten in the Ebro Delta. Meanwhile, (Baix Empordà) and Sudanell (Segrià). at one of Catalonia’s fishing ports, the mountains offer festivals celebrating These celebrations generally combine such as Vilanova i la Geltrú and Sant trinxat (savoury potato and cabbage cake) work in the fields with culinary events. Carles de la Ràpita, or in the Barce- in Val d'Aran and Vall de Camprodon. They also provide an excellent op- loneta neighbourhood of Barcelona. Learning how to cook Catalonia’s finest traditional dishes; soaking in wine in a soothing bath; and strolling amongst vineyards; these are just some of the food and wine activities that visitors can enjoy in Catalonia. Mushrooms and snails, two traditional ingredients in Catalan cuisine Catalan cuisine: traditional fare that both surprises and delights the palate From time immemorial, Catalan cuisine has constantly absorbed influences that have helped to shape the country’s rich and diverse culinary traditions. Catalonia’s culinary heritage is rooted All these historic influences have given in Greek and Roman traditions. These our cuisine a distinctive Mediterranean two cultures are at the origin of the character, whilst also providing us with three key ingredients in the Mediterra- new ingredients which we have included SUGGESTION nean diet: olive oil, wheat and wine. in our blends and mixtures: meat with This triumvirate formed the basis for fish, poultry with fruit, chocolate with the refined cuisine in which the affluent picada (a garnish made by crushing gar- classes began to lay the foundations lic, parsley, toasted bread and toasted for structured meals. But Catalan cui- hazelnuts and almonds together with sine also owes a debt to the Moors, pestle and mortar), garlic mayonnaise who introduced new farming methods, with fruit, and so on.
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