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...Of almost 100 producers this year, there were just four from Ribera del Duero — Dominio del Águila, Bendito Destino, Goyo Garcia and Valdaya — and only nine from Rioja: Akutain, Alonso & Pedrajo Viticultores...
...The star product around these parts is the raw-milk goat’s cheese made by Luís Martell and Lucía Torres at Era del Cardón, one of no less than 130 artisan queserías on the island....
...Ponzano’s owner Paco García left his job as an auditor in 1995 to take over the business — previously a bar and charcuterie — from his father, expanding it into a restaurant, with an extra floor below....
...I was in the mountains behind the Spanish beach resort of Estepona, tagging along on a studio visit to one of the rising artists of the Costa del Sol: Juan Miguel Quiñones Garcia (known as Quiñones), a sculptor...
...While there have been deaths across the country, it is striking how many have occurred in Cali, a city of 2.3m people in the restive south-west of the country, and the surrounding region of Valle del Cauca...
...The hotel is arranged around a galleried courtyard where Jose Carlos García, doyen of malagueño chefs, runs the in-house restaurant Balausta....
...On March 8, the day after Venezuela was struck by a big power cut, a string of top Mexican tourist hotspots including Cancún, Tulum and Playa del Carmen were plunged into darkness....
...Carmen Calvo, deputy prime minister, said on Friday: “Democracy is not compatible with a tomb in honour of the memory of Franco.”...
...“I am not afraid [of being arrested],” says Carles Escolà, the 39-year-old mayor of Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside Barcelona. “We have the strength of numbers behind us.”...
...Mott, Calle del Barquillo 31 (+3491-308 1280). Pez, Calle de Regueros 15 (+3491-310 6677; www.pez-pez.es)....
...I am sitting in the dining room of the hotel restaurant El Vallés outside the northern Spanish city of Burgos, where Cobo was head chef until November last year....
...They had one daughter, María del Carmen, born in 1926. 1926 He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general....
...del Marqués 2011 Valle de la Orotava...
...Culture Picasso Museum, museopicassomalaga.org; Carmen Thyssen Museum, carmenthyssenmalaga.org; Hammam Al Ándalus, hammamalandalus.com; Casa del Cardenal, lacasadelcardenal.com; La Térmica, latermicamalaga.com...
...And not just another Cancún or Playa del Carmen, which has held the dubious honour of being the fastest-growing city in Latin America for the best part of a decade. ——————————————- Doubles at Casa Las...
...Indeed unlike such other Mexican tycoons as Mexichem’s Antonio del Valle and Cemex’s Lorenzo Zambrano, whose interests encompass much of the world, Slim’s hugely successful business empire hardly stretches...
...Elementia’s cement venture, called Cementos Fortaleza, is founded only in October by Slim and Antonio del Valle, owner of the fast-growing maker of chemicals and plastic tubing, Mexichem....
...Pignolo is used in blends as well as for varietal wines in Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC (in particular in Prepotto, Albana, Rosazzo, Buttrio and Premariacco)....
...In the 1960s, this link led to the emergence of the Latin American “boom” generation that included Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, who spent many years in Barcelona....
...Mamaine, a chef and community leader in the Afro-Peruvian enclave of El Carmen, which still has no sewerage, says people are angry....
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