JORGE BUSTOS
@ JorgeBustos1
Madrid
Updated on Wednesday, 28July2021-01: 55
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Tour or siesta The true national sport
As long as comrade
Pepefé
Tezanos
continues to lead the CIS, the rigor of the demos will have to run on our part. In this section we are deeply concerned with the issues that concern people, especially in summer. And no one can deny that, along with the class struggle, the generation gap or inter-territorial grievances, there are other serious dialectics that are dividing Spaniards.
Today the nation is torn between the supporters of gazpacho and the devotees of salmorejo
, and it seems inexplicable to us that a populist party has not yet been founded on this dialectic of soup. But Errejón also has to rest from time to time.
When we approach the data, however, we discover that with regard to gazpachistas and salmorejistas the split is not such:
the former overwhelmingly prevail
. In all ages, in all sexes - in our survey we have only recorded two - and in all militancies. There is no discussion: the vast majority prefer gazpacho. So I must resign myself once more to the inner snort of my spirit of contradiction. Because I
think that comparing gazpacho with salmorejo is like comparing a limpet with an oyster, cider with champagne, Morata with Mbappé
. It's not that gazpacho is bad: it's that it requires little effort on the palate and goes through it without leaving much memory. It's like that Childs soup Camba compared
best-selling
authors to
: "Its work is mainly eliminatory, and it does not consist in pleasing everyone but in not displeasing anyone. The day that this literature had any flavor it would become debatable matter, as pleasant for some as it would be unpleasant for others, and it would lose the universality that it enjoys today. "
Salmorejo, on the other hand, is a culinary landmark with character and structure, a find so pure that
its industrialization tastes like blasphemy
, while a
tetrabrik
gazpacho
solves a light dinner.
The homeland of salmorejo is Córdoba.
There is a
salmoreteca there
where I got to try somewhat daring variations of the original recipe,
in some of which the guacamole was dangerously involved
.
But the real Cordovan salmorejo, placed next to the best gazpacho, can only be admitted as an opening act.
Gazpacho Salmorejo Survey
Not even
Teófilo Gautier
, who kicked Spain in 1843 and wrote the travel book that contributed decisively to our pink legend, could with the gazpacho. "The slightly refined dogs of our country would surely refuse to put their snouts in such food. However, it is the favorite dish of Andalusians and
the most beautiful women have no objection to taking large plates of this infernal soup
. We have to declare However, even when the first time you taste it seems wrong, you end up getting used to it and even taking it with pleasure. " And beware that this Frenchman wept with grief the day he entered Paris and remembered the Alhambra.
Then there is a concoction called
gazpachuelo
that Teo León Gross discovered for me in Malaga.
It is not a dish for summer, it is a fish soup that sailors drank to settle their stomachs before attacking a good skewer of sardines.
But you take what you want, we will fight for everything else.
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