We ate: berenjenas con miel, which are fried eggplant fries drizzled with cane syrup; croquetas, which are fried balls of bechamel, (cream sauce), with bits of ham inside; flamenquín, which looks like a deep-fried hotdog, but inside is a roll of different pork products (cured ham, lunch-meat ham and pork loin); ensalada mixta, which is a mixed salad of lettuce, tomato, corn, black olives, white asparagus, shredded beets and onions, dressed with olive oil and vinegar; and salmorejo, which is Córdoba’s famous cold tomato soup, kind of like gazpacho--but it is made with dry bread that’s been ground to a paste, so it’s kind of creamy.
My friends and I went to a flamenco concert this week. Flamenco is typical southern Spanish artform involving both music and dance. The music usually comprises a singer and a guitar player, and the dance can take place either between partners or as an individual performance. Flamenco’s roots lie in the gitano or gypsy migration to southern Spain from northwest India between the 9th-14th centuries. Can you see a similarity between Ghoomar traditional dance from India and Flamenco?
