Federica_Lora
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Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
lomo
Federica, I'm a vegetarian, so if you ask about the meals that were most memorable I'm afraid what first comes to mind are the bad ones. In San Juan de Ortega (edit--not in the 'old days' when the padre was there) the vegetarian pilgrim's menu main dish was the most enormous plate of french fries ever. Period. Or the 'all vegetable' dish in Astorga that wasn't. Or...I could go on but won't.
Unless I carry it myself (bread and raw veggies--tomatoes, carrots, olives, cheese--), lunch is always tortilla (or occasionally a bocadillo). You could line up 30-odd different thumbnail pics of different tortilla as tiles and that would capture it. Sometimes they were fabulous, other times...well...
Probably the most memorable good meals along the way were more about the care and kindness of the person making them than the food itself.The food in all these places WAS good, but the love and care that went into the making of it was what I most remember.
Two other things that stand out are first, Pimentos de Padron. After a month of a scarcity of good vegetables these are like ambrosia. So once I get to that side of Galicia, a plate of these (with maybe some soup and bread) tends to be the standard meal. The very first time I encountered them was in Rinadiso, and the sizzling platter of singed peppers glistening with rock salt was a jaw-dropping (and delightful) surprise.
And...sopa de ajo. Ah, this is wonderful 'medicine.'
There were several for me, and hard to remember them all, but here's a few:Thank you so much for all the answers!
Does anyone remember of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special?
Hi, welcome to the forum.Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
Did Camino Frances twice--Best Ever was the Café Casanova in Estella--no comparison for quality or quantity. 2nd best were TV dinners cooked in microwave in Albergues; third was cold cans of tuna with veggies.
Like most Norte Americans say--I would have killed for a Taco! Food is generally BLAND. Learned quickly that one MUST carry salt, pepper, and hot sauce with you. others appreciate if you share those items as no one is going to give you them with a meal.
And don't you just love a hamburger that consists of nothing but a patty on a loaf of bread--nothing else at all!
Thank you so much for all the answers!
Does anyone remember of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special?
That was good stuff, wasn't it bro. Probably some of the best paella I have ever had.Mark Lee and I shared a communal dinner at Calea in Ponferrada. It was a paella with so much chicken we could not clean the serving platter.
I have had so many wonderful meals on the Camino that I am ready to consider writing a cookbook.
If one stays away from bocadillas and tortillas, there is a wonderful world of food on the Camino in every town along the way.
Hmmm, in 2014 I had a fantastic hamburger with cheese, lettuce, tomato on a nice bun. There was a catsup in a tiny packet, no mustard but that was Ok since I'm not a mustard eater. I'd asked for regular ol' papas fritas but they served up papus bravas instead, not my favorite. Anyway, at a favorite tavern in Burgos right off the Plaza Mayor. If anyone is interested I'll find the name in my notes!And don't you just love a hamburger that consists of nothing but a patty on a loaf of bread--nothing else at all!
At one evening pilgrim meal I didn't understand one item on the menu. The proprietor told me, "bang bang Bambi", so I enjoyed venison for dinner.Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
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Good evening everyone!
I am a student of graphic design and communication of ISIA Urbino!
I'm working on a project about the Camino de Santiago, and I could use a hand!
I'd like to collect a bit 'of testimonies on what has been your experience on the path, what you have eaten during the journey and what was your relationship with food!
I know the request is a little bit 'strange, but I'm working on the topic "The food of the pilgrim"!
I'd like to know about your personal experience and if you have any anecdote of some dinner or some lunch that was somehow special to you!
Thank you so much to all those who will answer!
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