I enjoy good food, but don’t exactly consider myself a “foodie,” which by definition is “a person who has an ardent interest in food, and who eats food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby.” I’ve also seen a reference to a foodie being someone who plans their travel around dining destinations, and that’s not me either. Nevertheless, with my trip to Spain, I wanted to make sure to cover some of the basics that Spain is well known for: paella, tapas, and churros and chocolate. A few other things that I found myself really enjoying was jam\u00f3n and octopus, but more on that later.<\/p>\n
I’ve certainly seen churros here in the States prior to my trip to Spain, but can’t say that I had ever had them more than just a couple times. I thought of it as a dessert thing, but in my travel planning and reading in advance of the Spain trip, I saw a “warning” that it’s a “… cultural faux pas to have churros for dessert. Spaniards consider it a breakfast dish only.”<\/p>\n
So I decided that when in Spain, do as the Spaniards do, and I had some churros and chocolate for breakfast (pictured above) at a place called Maestro Churrero<\/a> at Calle Atocha, 19 in Madrid. It was indeed delicious, but for my own personal preference, it seemed a bit too heavy on the sweet\/sugary vibe to make it any sort of regular breakfast habit. But no doubt, it was delicious – for someone who loves chocolate, to have a whole glass of thick liquid chocolate to dip the churros in … wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I enjoy good food, but don’t exactly consider myself a “foodie,” which by definition is “a person who has an ardent interest in food, and who eats food not only out of hunger but also as a hobby.” I’ve also seen a reference to a foodie being someone who plans their travel around dining destinations, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,50],"tags":[201,204,248,453,700],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-travel-explore","tag-chocolate","tag-churros","tag-dining","tag-madrid","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}