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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 13/7/2017: vegan tapeo
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:46:32 +0200

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.

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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


Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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