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inaugural conference año del aove

06 Tuesday Feb 2024

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aove conferencia

The inaugural ASGT conference for el Año del AOVE de Sevilla took place this week at the rather splendid Casa de la Provincia. The guest speaker was Rosa Vañó, member of the Royal Gastronomy Academy and co-founder of Castillo de Canina in Jaén (where this deliciousness is produced), introduced by our president Julio Moreno Ventas. It’s going to be an exciting year… stay tuned!

This time I was reminded to stick around for the group pic afterwards (forgot during the Año del Arroz closing event last June…oops).

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new gastro guías meeting

23 Thursday Nov 2023

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23 nov 23-001Baptiste, Antonio Castaño, me, María (MIA: Lola)

Today the Gastro Guías had a very pleasant and fruitful meeting with the new managing director of Sevilla City Office, Antonio Castaño. As I mentioned in September, with the new local government we’ve had to establish new contacts in the tourism office, as well as maintaining contact with our original ones, like Javier Torres who was instrumental in helping us get started. Plus we had our first members meeting this week and things are beginning to take shape. Stay tuned!

arbequina amontillado

22 Wednesday Nov 2023

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Arbequina Amontillado by Castilla de Canena in Jaén. A young extra virgin arbequina olive oil refined in Bodegas Lustau amontillado sherry wine barrels more than half a century old. I first tried this at the Auténtica Food Festival in September and it blew me away, crazy gorgeous flavour, the best of two worlds. So excited to finally have some at home. Also hoping to visit the producers soon. Been missing Jaén a lot!

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Fred & Arpy

25 Wednesday Oct 2023

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The last time I saw Arpy & Fred was back in July 2018 (!!!) in Málaga. So I was thrilled to find out they would be in Sevilla for a quick visit this week. We met up for a fabulous lunch at Barra Baja (with a pre-lunch sherry at Manolo Cateca) and caught up as well as one can catch up five years in less than five hours. Amazing food and even better company. What a great day.

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