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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 19 episodes published.
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
Show notesIn 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
Show notesSix 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
Show notesWhile 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
Show notesGazpacho 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
Show notesEvery 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
Show notesChurros 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
Show notesFlamenco 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
Show notesPan 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
Show notesSpain has five meals a day. You probably only know three of them. Merienda is the fourth, the officially sanctioned afternoon snack that happens somewhere in the afternoon, right in the gap between a 2pm lunch and a dinn
Show notesSpain has an entire time of day named after a drink, which just goes to show how essential vermut, or vermouth, is to understand Spain. This episode, hosted by Marti Buckley who just happens to be the co-founder of the I
Show notesSemana Santa…it's holy week, that time of year again when Spain stops. Schools close, businesses shut down, and people fill the streets for religious processions that last hours, some of which have been happening continu
Show notesTraditional Valencian paella has rabbit, legumes, and vegetables…not seafood. This episode explains what paella actually is, where it comes from, and why there's so much confusion about it. You'll learn the ingredients i
Show notesSpain's most famous tradition is also its most misunderstood. The siesta isn't what you think it is, and most Spaniards don't actually take one. This episode breaks down what a siesta actually is, why it's fundamentally
Show notesSpain's most expensive cured meat costs the same per ounce as jewelry-grade silver. A single leg runs €400 to €1,000 in Spain, over $1,400 in the US, and only 6% of Spanish ham production qualifies for the top black tag
Show notesEvery evening, entire Spanish neighborhoods empty onto the streets. No event, no destination, just thousands of people walking. This is the paseo, Spain's daily walking tradition and the most elegant solution to modern l
Show notesThis is an episode about Spanish coffee. Not just café con leche...also cortado, café solo, carajillo...and each one has its own rules, its own timing, and its own place in the daily rhythm of Spanish life. In this episo
Show notesSobremesa is the word for what happens after you finish eating in Spain, and once you get it, everything clicks. It's why a Tuesday lunch turns into a three-hour situation. It's why Spanish restaurants feel so unhurried.
Show notesTortilla española is just eggs, potatoes, and oil. That's it. And yet somehow it's Spain's most important dish… on every menu, in every bar, and the source of passionate debates over whether it needs onion or not. In thi
Show notesSpain is bigger, stranger, and more interesting than most people realize. The Basque Country, Cataluña, Andalucía, Galicia …they all cook differently, speak differently, and don't always agree on what "Spain" even means.
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