jaialdi 2015

jaialdi 2015

For one week every 5 years, I am transported to another country without leaving my own city. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I’m going to be lobbying hard to come back as Basque. Or maybe I was already a Basque in another lifetime. That would...
basque baked eggs

basque baked eggs

I like breakfast well enough. It’s certainly not my favorite meal of the day but on at least one morning of the weekend, I try to make something worth lingering over with my husband. But I felt like I was sort of in a rut – turning to variations of either...
basque-ing in the smoke

basque-ing in the smoke

I’m working on how I can become an honorary Basque. I just love the spirit of this ethnic group that inhabits the rugged region that straddles the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees mountains. In fact, they are the oldest surviving ethnic group on the...