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Prepare your palate for Piquillo red peppers and Navarra wine! For seven days, February 20 through February 27, Navarra The Kingdom of Flavors, Spain will visit New York City for a gastronomic celebration.
Restaurants in New York will offer plates and/or menus highlighting Navarra's unique traditional dishes and local wines. Chefs from Navarra will prepare tantalizing cuisine nurturing a cooking style of complex flavors and mixed textures. Menus will include Navarran dishes such as, Iberian pork cheeks, glazed pork belly and fine potato purée, Filet of hake on a base of cream of leeks and foie, cordon of beet and strawberries, Griddled prawns and sautéed seasonal mushrooms with pine nut praline…and for dessert, White chocolate soup with crushed blood orange and pink grapefruit ice and Sweet milk curd mousse with coffee gelatine and rum zabaglione. Compliment these exciting flavours with a Navarrese wine, a region some say produce the best wineries in Spain. Choose a wine from the Bodegas Inurrieta, Monjardin, Otazu, Chivite vineyards to accompany an entrée, tapas or some fabulous Navarra cheese -- Roncal or Idiazabal.
About Navarra:
The region of Navarra in the north of Spain borders the Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragon, and the Pyrenees which makes it a vital part of El Camino de Santiago, (Saint James Way). This ancient kingdom‘s rich history leaves its legacy within medieval villages and festivals such as the famous San Fermin in Pamplona – eight days of bull running celebrated each July and immortalized by Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises.
Navarra’s unusual past and diverse topography has made it an attraction for “off the beaten” path travelers and food and wine aficionados. Graced with cool uplands and sun-drenched fertile valleys Navarra produces superb culinary products and wines of the highest quality. The old Kingdom of Navarra has preserved its royal nobility in rich tradition of food and wine
The Kingdom of Navarra visit to New York is sponsored by the Government of Navarra and the Navarra Chamber of Commerce.
Navarra Tourist Office
http://www.turismo.navarra.es/eng/home/
Spanish Government Tourist Office
http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Destinos/Provincias/R/OH/0/Navarra?Language=en
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