Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

Follow your stomach

Cabrales Cheese

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A trip would never be complete without sitting down at a table to taste a fabada, an Asturian bean stew, a cachopo, Avilés sausage, hake skewers or stuffed onions. Ships bring in the best fish. The abundant livestock farms are the necessary basis for elaborating cheeses. The network of small gardens and farms is the main supplier of fruit and vegetables and the rawmaterial used to make cider and wine. The food-processing industry combines innovation and tradition in its production processes. Nor without tasting some rice pudding, frixuelos , Asturian crepes or marañuelas , sweet bread, from Lluanco/Luanco or Candás, the two towns that dispute the origin of the recipe. The quality its products has led to several recognitions. Six products of the Principality have received the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) stamp: the cider, wine and the Cabrales, Gamonéu, Casín and Afeuga’l pitu cheeses. Other products have been marked with the Protected Geographical

Indication (PGI) such as Asturian Beef and Chosco de Tineo, a smoked preserved sausage made from pork, and Los Beyos cheese and the Faba de Asturias, the Asturian white bean. Asturias also produces other high-quality ecologically certified food products including a selection of vegetables, pulses, the Gochu Asturcelta pig, the Xalda sheep and other products such as yoghurts, bread and jams. Visit a cave in Cabrales Several producers open their caves to allow you to get to experience first-hand the spaces where the famous Cabrales cheese is cured. The Cabrales Foundation, in the village of Las Arenas, offers a 40-minute-long guided visit split into two parts. The first takes you into the cave where you can have a look around the rooms while listening to a detailed explanation of the elaboration process, from themoment themilk is collected until when it is decided that the cheese is ready. The second part consists of an audio-visual session providing you with additional information to complete the visit.

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