Fitz cake
Fitz cake is a cake made with citrus zest and dried fruit, marinated in tea and Moscatel de pasas, a muscatel wine made from raisins ("pasas"). Named after the house dog - Fitz, its first taster - in spite of ourselves. One day when [...]
Moon and Holy Week
Holy Week is one of the most eagerly awaited feasts in the Spanish calendar. Christians commemorate Christ's Passion, from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, the day of his Resurrection. The date of Easter Sunday varies. No Holy Week is complete without the processions organized by
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Being guiri: the lot of those who come from elsewhere
Karine has long been proud to call herself a "guiri". Proud to shout it on the fly. She got the word from a gaditano in Puerta de Tierra, the new town. And if Karine was proud at first, it's because she heard the word as she wanted to be seen: as
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"El poema del Cante Jondo" Federico Garcia Lorca
A lovely book published on April 8, purchased from Libreria Manuel de Falla, Plaza de Mina, two doors down from the building where the composer was born. Most of "El poema del Cante Jondo", first printed in 1931, was composed by Federico García Lorca as early as November 1921. Less
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Guachisnai, a carnival word
On this strip of land squatted by Cadiz, you're almost always a foreigner. An extranjero. And the word is hard to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak the language, with its jota (j) separated by just one vowel from the rolled /r/. A jota, the spitting image of Spanish, that you learn to pronounce as soon as you hear it.
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