Olive Me

Thanks to the Internet I suppose I could read El País every day.  But I get bored after a while looking at the never-ending stream of news (and ads) that the Internet delivers.  What I want is to browse the actual paper, noticing what makes headlines when editors are constrained by the real front page.  I like to sip my café con leche and look around at everyone else’s paper, too, comparing, say, the Pais’s political spin to the Vanguardia’s white-shoe one to Avui’s Catalan perspective.  The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages gallery delivers some of that browsing fun on its online gallery every day. (more…)

Those Michelin star folks are troublemakers, if you ask me. A couple of years ago, their meddling came between me and my favorite Barcelona lunch date:  Restaurant Saüc. It’s not that Saüc’s star wasn’t well-deserved, it’s just that it brought lots of new suitors to the table. Prices went up and our lunchtime thing had to end.

We have “La Crisis” to thank for a recent e-mail from the restaurant, wooing with a 27 Euro prix fixe lunch special. The note also mentions a pumpkin salad, beef cheeks with wild mushrooms, almond and pear tart with sheeps’ milk ice cream.  You better believe I’ll go running back for more. (more…)