Carnival celebrations travel across the country from north to south. If we do, we attend to its origins, much less refined and much more critical than today, this party gave way to a time where eating meat was considered sinful and excessive (as if the town ate a lot of it!). In the city of Valencia, Carnestoltes was so famous and so rebellious that the authorities did not hesitate to ban the party until it was tamed a little. Accompanying the festive excesses, the consumption of meat, month and a half after Christmas, is present at the table (of those who can!) on Thursday Llarder. Sweet and salty based on pork, eggs and other fats go to the table. Pilots to the paella at the Maestrat, pataqueta berenars at Camp de Morvedre, nuns to the Coast, cakes with chitxarrons in the Baix Segura and baked rice casseroles everywhere are just a few of the dishes that go together on the table these days. Follow the February celebrations in Vinça <tastaldaci.com>. XAVIER BENAVENT
XII Gay Games
OF SATURDAY 27/6 ON SATURDAY 4/7
Monica Naranjo, Soraya Arnelas, Suri, Fruela and Choriza May participate in the cultural side of the Gay Games of Valencia.
