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gourmet cooking in miniature PINTXOS Nano-gastronomy

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and elaborated with great care by their creators are universally admired. This is the sophisticated science of nano-gastronomy. Wherever you may go, when you see them you will not be able to resist trying some in the bars of the Parte Vieja of San Sebastian, in Bilbao's Casco Viejo, in the Ensanche in Vitoria-Gasteiz, or wherever you are, you can be sure you will get the chance to taste hundreds of combinations… the delicious world of the "pintxo" deserves no less.

he idea of going from bar to bar trying the delicious mouthfuls that crowd the counters of the

establishments originated here, and it is such an attractive scene, that you will find it impossible to resist. They began as unassuming Gildas made with peppers and anchovy and as Péles, or boiled eggs. The idea was to eat something between glasses of wine, but they had actually created a new way of eating: "pintxos" From that simple beginning, today the tiny snacks tempting the palate in bars

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