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  1. Aspi

    Is the camino a ritual for all spanish people?

    . - Until the 90's the pilgrimage was a "lost ritual" for most of european people - spaniards included-. - It's difficult to find a common "ritual" for all the iberian penninsula: the traditional cultures were more local (valleys, provinces and regions). Of course things like Catholicism...
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    The Fifteenth Letter of the Spanish Alphabet

    . The University of Seattle has a very active department of Sephardic culture - a lot of jews from Salonica went to USA around IIWW. The sephardic diaspora was also important in Netherlands (Spinoza...), England (Montefiore, Mendoza...) or Italy (the Bible of Ferrara...). There are beautifull...
  3. Aspi

    Chickpea stew and the Spanish Inquisition

    The complete "cocido madrileño" uses beef, chicken, pork's bacon and chorizo and morcilla ( well, and the bones of all those poor animals)... and all them are called "los sacramentos"
  4. Aspi

    Chickpea stew and the Spanish Inquisition

    As I watch the video it seems that the recipee is very close to the "cocido madrileño", the most popular meal in Madrid until today. In north Spain - I´m from basque country - traditionally the chickpea was less usual and was used as a special "cocido"s of Sunday. Clearly judeo.arabic are the...
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    The Fifteenth Letter of the Spanish Alphabet

    . Alfonso X´s intelectuals marked the first Spanish standar on grammar and ortography in order to transform this "popular" Latin dialect in a cultivaded language with wich write books, administrative papers, etc. It was the XIII century. (It´s said that the Jewish writers in the court preferred...
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    The Fifteenth Letter of the Spanish Alphabet

    About the ladino in Thesalonica, Greece, before the II world war

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