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Hosted by Marti Buckley · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 30 episodes
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Spain Explained is the podcast for people who want to understand Spanish culture, Spanish food, and Spanish traditions beyond the guidebook basics. Hosted by award-winning author and cook Marti Buckley, who's lived in Spain since 2010, this show unpacks the concepts, rituals, and quirks that make Spain… Spain.Whether you're planning a trip to Spain, obsessed with Spanish cuisine, dreaming of moving there, or just curious why lunch can last four hours, this podcast translates the untranslatable. Each episode dives into one single part of Spanish life, from sobremesa to siesta, café con leche to jamón ibérico, and explains what it is and why it matters.Marti is the author of cookbooks including The Book of Pintxos and Basque Country, writes for Condé Nast Traveler, The Telegraph, and Food & Wine,, and founded the International Society for the Preservation and Enjoyment of Vermouth. She's your insider guide to Spanish culture, Spanish daily life, and Spanish food traditions.This podcas
Marti Buckley hosts Spain Explained, a society show with 30 episodes published.
Sell a bottle of Gran Reserva Rioja before its fifth birthday and the region will fine you. Rioja is a wine denomination in northern Spain, strung along the Ebro across some 65,000 hectares of La Rioja, Basque Álava and
Not every pastry has its own aviation policy. The ensaimada is a coiled Mallorcan spiral, its pork lard dough stretched nearly transparent, baked and buried under powdered sugar, and the Balearic government once calculat
Spain won the 2026 World Cup while conceding just one goal across the entire tournament, a first for any champion, with a squad that included (for the first time ever) zero Real Madrid players. So let's talk fútbol! Foot
On the last Wednesday of August, in a small town in Valencia, 20,000 people have a gigantic food fight of somewhere around 150 tonnes of overripe tomatoes. That is La Tomatina, held in Buñol near Valencia and certified b
The town most associated with octopus in all of Spain sits 90 kilometers from the nearest coastline, with no port and no boats, yet every August it serves around 33 tons of it in a single day. That inland paradox is the
Drinking beer is one of Spain's national pastimes. A caña, the smallish draft beer in Spain, is its protagonist…but beware of regional differences. In Madrid, a caña is 200 milliliters of draft beer. Order one in Bilbao
Four million people sit down across Spain every weekday for the menú del día. A fixed price, a first course, a second, bread, wine, dessert. The menú del día is such a Spanish institution, it feels like it must have alwa
A restaurant in Segovia has spent nearly a century proving the tenderness of its roast suckling pig by carving it with the edge of a plate instead of a knife. That gesture made the dish famous, and it is just one piece o
This episode is devoted to a single, four-letter word that you'll hear a LOT in Spain: vale. What does it mean, when is it used, and why is the answer … just about all the time for anything? This episode traces the full
Forget sangria...tinto de verano is Spain's true summer drink. In this episode, we break down tinto de verano : what it actually is, the correct ratio of ice and the mixer , where it came from, and why it's THE drink. Li
Chorizo shows up everywhere in Spain: sliced on a cutting board, tucked into a bocadillo, cooking down in a pot of lentils, skewered at a bar. It belongs to no single meal or occasion. It's daily, constant, and deeply wo
Manchego is Spain's most exported cheese ... and its most copied. Nearly 60 percent of all Spanish DOP cheese sold abroad carries that name, which makes the imitation market significant and the label worth reading carefu
In Spain, when a public holiday falls on a Thursday or Tuesday, taking the working day in between as leave turns it into a four-day weekend. The country plans around this. The calendar gets studied. There is a specific w
Six fighting bulls. 849 meters. Under three minutes. Every morning for nine days straight, Pamplona does this during the fiesta of San Fermín. That's the part everyone knows. This episode covers that and all the rest. Sa
While the word tapas may have gotten loose in the world, from London to Hong Kong, it is distinctly Spanish and distinctly different than what it has come to mean globally. Going out for tapas has its own verb in Spanish
Gazpacho looks like the simplest thing in the world. Blended vegetables, tomatoes, olive oil, vinegar. But did you know it spent centuries with no tomato, no red color, and no place in any serious cookbook? This episode
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people walk across Spain to reach a single cathedral in the far northwest corner of the country. Some of them are religious. Some of them just want a really, really long walk. The Cam
Churros are another one of those foods that reveals everything about Spain's regionality. This episode breaks down what churros actually are, where they come from, and why a food this simple produces this much regional p
Flamenco is one of the world's great musical traditions: a singing art so emotionally raw it can feel like possession, a guitar technique unlike anything else on earth, and an extremely expressive dance vocabulary. It de
Pan con tomate literally means "bread with tomato". It is just four ingredients. Bread, tomato, olive oil, salt. (Ok, sometimes a little garlic, too). But this simple dish is NOT to be underestimated. It forms the backbo
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