Asturian Cuisine, Camino Santiago

The hearty food of a pleasure-loving, hard-working people.  The cuisine of the Spanish province on the Camino is reach and robust, simply prepared but with the complexity of hundreds of years of tradition.

They combine fava beans with chorizo and herbs to create their velvety fabada stew.  To accompany, they brew cider, aerated by a specific pour: the bottle is raised high above the head, the glass held low below the waist, and a stream is poured in a long arc, landing splashing in the glass.