Pà tomaquet not Catalan!

The origins of Catalan cookbook, La cuynera catalana, and a revelatory French description of pan con tomate (albeit soggy) in early 19th century Andalusia. Or: If you can’t make history, make it up.

Statute of limitations for narcotrafficking in Spain?

Re the ketamine bust, and pleading various degrees of separation, the other end of a “friend of a friend of” chain is supposedly wondering how long they’ll have to wait on a Goa beach. It’s the kind of information comparatively easy to discover in Spanish with reference to the USA, but which for Spain inevitably…