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Spanish cooking weekend in Andalusia – Joanna’s review

Spanish cooking weekend in Andalusia – Joanna’s review

[ 0 ] October 19, 2012

Summer ’s long gone, but our lucky Taste of London competition winner Joanna recently got some extra days of sunshine in the beautiful Andalusian countryside. Joanna chose our unique Spanish cooking weekend as her price (excellent choice!) and couldn’t have been any happier with the hands-on cooking classes set in a 150 year old Finca.
Here’s [...]

Why we must all learn Spanish in Spain after Xavi and Iniesta

Why we must all learn Spanish in Spain after Xavi and Iniesta

[ 0 ] July 8, 2010

Spain are in the final of the World Cup on Sunday and won their place by playing what looked like simple and effortless football but wasn’t.  They played as a true team should, running selflessly off the ball, understanding angles and passing quickly and cleanly despite a good solid performance by the German team.
The Spanish way [...]

Gift the gift of time with your Mum this Mothers Day

Gift the gift of time with your Mum this Mothers Day

[ 0 ] March 9, 2010

Mothers day is about giving your mum a break from everyday life and making her feel special but it’s not just about gifts, for a lot of mum’s spending quality time with her children is the best gift.
Whatever kind of mum you have, from creative mum to foodie mum, GoLearnTo.com can help you find the [...]

From tree to tapas – a crash course in all things olive

From tree to tapas – a crash course in all things olive

[ 0 ] November 22, 2009

A short break on an Andalucian finca gives an insight into the legendary fruit – harvesting it, classifying it – and cooking with it. Lucy Gilmore writes about GoLearnTo.com’s olive harvest and cooking course for the Observer today.
Spitting and spluttering, I choked up the last fragments of bitter fruit. I had thought that working in [...]

Spanish cooking weekend features in the Sunday Times

Spanish cooking weekend features in the Sunday Times

[ 0 ] January 4, 2009

GoLearnTo.com’s Spanish cooking weekend featured in the Sunday Times on the 5th January with a special recommendation for the ‘best value’ weekend in their 52 weekends article.
“Head to olive-oil country for an intensive course in la cocina Andaluz.
Staying at a finca in the village of Los Juncares, on the edge of the Parque Natural de [...]

A city named after a fruit

A city named after a fruit

[ 0 ] December 10, 2008

The city of Granada in Andalucía, Spain was named after the fruit pomegranate and it is the city’s emblem. Less you forget, the Moors planted an avenue of pomegranate trees in the city centre.
Native to Persia, this fashionable fruit with its high levels of antioxidant, vitamins B, C & E is naturally suited to cool [...]

The rise of the ‘Gastrosexual’

The rise of the ‘Gastrosexual’

[ 0 ] July 25, 2008

The Daily Mail and a number of other newspapers are running stories on a new report by the Future Foundation commissioned by PurAsia (a food company who have just launched a range of Asian meals) which dubs men who see cooking as a hobby rather than a household chore as ‘Gastrosexuals’.
A spokesperson for PurAsia said: ‘We found that cooking [...]