“Grip the leg firmly, slip the black stocking down, then bite into the white flesh.” Before you get the wrong idea, I should explain that I was in La Coruna, , receiving expert tuition on how to eat percebes, or goose barnacles, which are prised from the rocks on the coast here in Galicia in [...]
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Digging for cockles and clams in Cambados
Posted: May 3, 2010 in Galicia, Spanish food and wineTags: Cambados, clams, cockles, Galicia, Rias Baixas, shellfish
Wearing white wellies and brandishing a long-toothed rake and a curved trowel, I trudged down the beach at low tide behind Angelines de Carrete, one of 200 women in the Shellfish Pickers’ Association of Cambados. “You usually spend three months learning how to do this,” said Angelines, as she bent down and deftly scooped a [...]
