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Like all periods, time of Lent has its very own cuisine on the island of Menorca, where fish and seasonal vegetables black and white kitchen are the stars. It is also a kitchen austere, frugal, vegetarian roots and convent, where one of the main characters is cod, cooking cod in Menorca, cuisine recipe extensive oral family black and white kitchen recipes, and as has happened with the vast Most dishes do not find Menorcan roots in mostly restaurants. The cooking black and white kitchen time of Lent in Menorca, cuisine seven weeks dijunis where meat was forbidden. A kitchen purification of our body and our spirit, a kitchen black and white kitchen that prepares us for the spring, healthy fats that the "last days" and also that we have accumulated from Christmas in San Antonio.
Cod is one of the stars of the kitchen this season and has already find this in the book "The Art of Cooking" Fray Francisco Rotger monk of the Convent of San Francisco de Ciutadella, was written in the first half eighteenth century, possibly during the years of British and French domination of Menorca. There you will find two recipes: Codfish balls and raoles cod.
From the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), on the one hand meant the loss of weight of the Hispanic Empire in Europe, and the incorporation of Menorca Crown -in past 300 years did the cod became an article of import as it has reached our days, and possibly in the English black and white kitchen fleet was consuming this fish, and root consumption in Menorca as an article imported by new settlers. While the consumption black and white kitchen of cod could be dated to the island from the fourteenth or fifteenth black and white kitchen century known as "cod" or Peixe salt, because this was already highly valued and consumed as in Catalonia and Valencia.
In the early twentieth century in Catalonia published several books about the "Kitchen of Lent," which has a chapter on the cod, as well as explanations of fasting, but not from religious rule as a reason hygienic scientific and so on so give a break to our stomach.
The Lent in Menorca, Balearic Islands and in many places speaking Catalan has representation from ancient times through the drawing of an old thin, long nose with a wart and brings his right hand in a Setra oil and cod left. Grandma Lent has seven feet; how many weeks comprising the period of fasting and penitence. Every Sunday black and white kitchen the children black and white kitchen of the house were and still are responsible for cutting off a foot that is used to burn just before lunch. Easter Sunday was burned last walk with her grandmother Lent and all made of paper or cardboard. Perhaps an ancestor ritual killing or burning bujot Citadel that is Easter Day. This means the end of the time period of Lent or Lent and we can start to eat meat in Menorca usually lamb, lamb Bible, which is baked, and it's time to eat formatjades black and white kitchen lamb.
My little cookbook "Cooking from Menorca Lent" (The Weekly Iris Citadel, 2014), is a collection black and white kitchen of our cooking time of Lent, a period of purification, not only the body but also a time to to focus intentions and challenges. We do not eat meat for Lent Fridays, but maybe we can make a Lent of not smoking, drinking alcohol, etc.
On Saturday, March 22 at 12 am at the square of the Rosary was presented the book "The Kitchen of Lent in Menorca." The event involved Bep Alles, author of the book, who welcomed the participants and explained the content of the act; Pep Pelfort member of Brother Roger and Study Center Gourmet Menorca, which welcomed the initiative, stressed the importance of publishing black and white kitchen cookbooks Menorca, and told the reasons for the popularity and use of cod at meal time Lent, which was attributed to the Protestant Reformation and the fact that freed countries of northern Europe fasting which made the producers cod south door; closed the event and the Councillor for Culture of the City of Ciutadella Sili Pons, who highlight the importance of preserving our kitchen, and wished every success black and white kitchen to the book; Anthony was present Ju