Slow Food and Food KM 0 in Menorca

Yesterday I booked the ferry tickets to Menorca, the little sister of Mallorca. It’s only an hour and a half ferry ride, but it feels quite different from Mallorca. I’ll tell you more about the island on my way back.

Last time I met up with Sílvia Anglada and her husband Toni Tarragó, who run the famous restaurant Es Tast de na Sílvia in the old town of Ciutadella.

Every day there is a different menu which Silvia and Toni decide on their daily visit to the market. Local, seasonal and fresh food, fruits and vegetables picked at the optimum moment with its best taste and smell.

Environmental sustainability is the motor for the KM 0 movement, reducing transport emissions and waste packaging. It’s the love for the earth and it’s gifts together with the passion for cooking which made Silvia decide to join the Slow Food km 0 movement.

From farm to table and when possible ecological products and ingredients are the secret of her great food and success. Her food is spiced with memories of flavours and tastes of her childhood, when she was running in the garden, playing in between vegetables and fruit trees. She collects old recipes and investigates in the traditional “cocina menorquina” and surprises her guests with emotions, feelings of nostalgia and childhood taste memories, or, to visitors from northern countries, the essence of a menorquine countryside and mediterranean flair.

Adventures in the kitchen and around the world

Giving it a start, but I’m still a bit reluctant and also concerned about my writing. My mother tong is German, I live and work in Spain and my idea is to write for my friends around the world who are interested in my adventures, photos and stories. So the language should be English I guess, but maybe sometimes Spanish or even German, but I’m not a good translator.

I decided not to let this problem stop me from any writing at all, because it is a great excuse to procrastinate, and I’m very good in procrastinating.

When I run CM Magazine, in the beginning we published in German, Spanish and English and later reduced the articles to Spanish and English, and the magazine was popular for great photography in black and white, we had even a photo by Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover.

What I really want is to tell stories with my photography, so the writing will rather be in a secondary place giving some background information.

So I beg you pardon for my lousy English writing and hope you’ll enjoy my “stories” anyway.

Best wishes from Mallorca.