Author: Neeru Khan

The Supreme Court decides that nine municipalities of the DO Valencia return to the DO Utiel-Requena After ten years of contentious, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling on the conflict that began when the Generalitat Valenciana issued two orders in which nine municipal terms that are part of the Utiel PDO were included as geographical demarcation of the DOP Valencia- Requena and more than a score of the municipal terms of the Alicante PDO were also included. Orders on which the DO Utiel-Requena and DO Alicante presented an appeal in 2011 before the TSJCV, which this regional court rejected.…

Foie gras must necessarily come from geese or ducks raised basically in the open air on farms, which in the case of Spanish foie gras are found, above all, in the northern part of the country, and represent a livestock activity similar to that of any other species such as pigs, cattle or sheep.Undoubtedly one of the most select products and appreciated by chefs and gourmets around the world, a high-quality ingredient present in a large number of recipes, since ancient times, due to its great versatility. In fact, foie gras is even considered a national gastronomic heritage in Hungary,…

Spain leads the post-pandemic recovery of world wine trade, becoming the supplier of this product that increased its exports the most in the first quarter of 2021 (+86 million liters), although at a lower average price. France was the one that increased its turnover the most (+178 million euros), after being the one that lost the most in the complicated year 2020. These are the main conclusions drawn from the recent report Main world exporters of wine. March 2021 published by the Spanish Wine Market Observatory (OeMv), which indicates that in 2020, despite a very complicated year for the sector…

Craft Beer Professionals Meet At InnBrew Barcelona will host next week the first edition of the InnBrew, The Brewers Convention, an event that was created with the aim of becoming the meeting point and reference point for the professional craft beer sector in both Spain and Southern Europe. This meeting of craft beer professionals, which will take place from July 22 to 24 at La Farga de L’Hospitalet (Barcelona), is organized by Beer Events, the company behind the already consolidated Barcelona Beer Festival and the Barcelona Beer Challenge, It will be held around three main axes: The InnShow. An exhibition…

Consumption of fresh wholemeal bread in Spain has increased more than twelve percent and consolidates its presence in Spanish households, where the increase has been close to six percent. Individually, the per capita intake in 2020 was more than two kilos, data that confirms that whole wheat bread continues to gain consumers in our country. This is reflected in the latest Food Consumption Report published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which indicates that during the past 2020, the purchase of bread in Spanish households increased by 5.7% and, in total, we consumed a 12.2% more fresh wholemeal…

On the need to adapt the Mediterranean diet to current habits Only by creating feasible habits throughout the chain, from food production to consumption, will the so-called Mediterranean diet – declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2013 – achieve, maintain its benefits in health and sustainability. It is one of the main conclusions drawn from two studies by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), of the Foodlab group, published in the scientific journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, who point out that recovering the Mediterranean diet, with its benefits for health and the environment, implies…

The Baco Awards, the traditional National Young Wines Contest that the Spanish Union of Tasters organizes every year, already have winners in its 2021 edition, in which almost five hundred references have participated, wines made all of them from the 2020 harvest. After three intense days of tasting, the jury of the Baco Awards – a panel of tasters entirely made up of professionals with recognized experience in the world of wine – has resolved a list of awards full of diversity and uniqueness that draws a map of unique wine-making Spain, a thermometer that measures the quality of the…

Sirloin, steak, entrecote or churrasco … there is a cut of beef for every taste and consumer. And also for each pocket because, for smaller budgets, there are other tasty and nutritious cuts such as needle, shoulder, entrails, vacuum or even make our own hamburgers. In addition, nutritionally the strengths of beef are many: about 100 grams of beef can provide more than 20% of the necessary iron in a day. In addition, the presence of meat favors the absorption of iron forms from vegetables, which justifies its association with vegetables. Another important contribution is zinc – 100 grams can…

From tomorrow, Wednesday, until July 21, the first Traditional Tomato Week in Madrid will be held, an initiative with the aim of promoting the consumption of three traditional varieties of local tomatoes with a short marketing circuit: Gordo, Moruno and Antiguo. . Promoted by the Madrid Institute for Rural, Agrarian and Food Research (IMIDRA), the campaign involves sixteen restaurants in the region that will offer, off the menu, a dish in a sweet or savory version made with these horticultural varieties recovered by IMIDRA researchers after twenty-five years of research. The restaurants Among the participating establishments are from a century-old…