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...visit?where we got to know local produce, taste handmade cheeses, and meet the growers who supplied our ingredients. Later, as we prepped the two dozen items for a Oaxacan mole negro (chicken in a dark-brown spicy sauce), Cabrera explained its origins. The dish was developed during the Spanish colonial era and contains ingredients from as far away as India. "My class isn't just about making recipes," she says. "I'm sharing a tradition...
...generation. What was once a diffidently autarchic appendage to the Continent has become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year by a full percentage point. Spanish companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick...
...councillors and the former chief of urban planning - offer a sobering glimpse of the potential corruption such a hot market can breed. Charges (which are denied) include influence peddling and kickbacks that politicians allegedly turned around into helicopters, thoroughbred horses and art collections. For the first time in modern Spanish history, the government ordered the dissolution of Marbella City Council and installed a temporary team to run the town. On taking office the new incumbents found the cupboards bare and thousands of unpaid bills, making the millionaires' jet-set resort virtually bankrupt. If there's a silver lining to what...
...Spain's jet-set and botox capital. Authorities in the Valencia region have been challenged by foreign owners and the European Commission over a 12-year-old law that allows communities to reclassify already developed land and force owners to sell. Environmentalists have been deploring the overdevelopment of the Spanish Costas for decades, but this year for the first time hoteliers have suggested a limit on new construction of holiday and second homes, which they say threatens their business. That would probably suit the Harveys, as well as others now sufficiently settled in, who prefer a sense of community over...
...Juan Adams y su hijo Juan Q." GEORGE W. BUSH, to immigrants in Nebraska preparing for a citizenship exam, explaining in Spanish that another father-son pair of Presidents preceded his dad and him: John Adams and his son John...