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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 13/7/2017: vegan tapeo
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:01:39 +0530
References: <CA6C9230-23A5-4037-B23F-5B969212FBE5@frozenlight.eu>

Looks good, especially for people like me. With a glass of good Fino,
perhaps?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> A tapeo is an important cultural institution in Spain. As you might guess,
> it is a tapas crawl, going from bar to bar to try the tapas. Yesterday,
> seven bars in the centre of Alicante put up a vegan tapeo. Each bar,
> whether veggie or not, committed to having at least two vegan tapas on the
> menu. Needless to say, Monica was keen on trying it, so I took the
> afternoon off and we went out to enjoy the vegan tapas.
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> The first place, called Farmers, had a vegan sandwich with avocado, beets,
> lettuce and lots of other good things. A nice place to start:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zgk7GWL/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zgk7GWL/A>
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> The we moved on to El Baserri del Pirata, a Basque bar which turned out to
> be totally awesome, both in terms of the food and the people. It is not
> vegetarian, and the fish and meat dishes looked really good, but they also
> have a delicious tempura-style aubergine:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KbLTkhq/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KbLTkhq/A>
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> And a nice guy keeping the bar and a good selection of stuff:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mVRnMn2/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-mVRnMn2/A>
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> We went to four of the seven places. The last one was La Cucaracha, where
> we had another aubergine dish. Monica is taking a picture to upload:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hBgCHxL/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hBgCHxL/A>
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> Something like this:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hphDhfk/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hphDhfk/A>
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> Most people outside Spain think that tapas are just olives, bread,
> Manchego cheese and pieces of Iberian ham. In reality, a tapa is a small
> dish of food and can be quite elaborate.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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