Learn About Spain

As we all gather to celebrate, feast and exchange gifts with our families, it is the perfect time to pause and be thankful for the beautiful things in life. I am so thankful for our La Tienda community, our family and this year, especially, our wonderful father, Don Harris. He reveled in the sense of community that he found in the Spanish people, and he wanted to share that sense of loving...

Over the last few decades, innovative Spanish chefs like Ferran Adrià have delighted diners with deconstructed, spherified, gelified and fully reimagined dishes - from spherical liquid olives to jamón-tuna - that changed how we think of food. I believe the key to this success is Spain’s amazing food heritage that goes back millennia. This deep culinary foundation is the reason that the...

What an amazing variety of cities and products, castles and crocuses in this fascinating part of Spain! We have traveled here and there over the region, but from the moment we first began exploring Spain, we were attracted to Toledo, just about an hour south of Madrid. There you can see a fascinating mosaic of all that has occurred in Spain over the past 2,000 years. 

We...

This is an itinerary I designed for a couple who wanted to get immersed in the heart of Spain while avoiding the usual tourist destinations. This was a little over two weeks, which I think is the minimum to do Spain justice. Even with that, we only concentrated on perhaps one third of the country, always bear in mind that there are 17 autonomous regions with their own distinct styles and...