Gastronomy and cooking

Before its cathedrals and its palaces, a Mediterranean city built its markets. For centuries the covered food market was the true centre of urban gravity: the place where...

Palma builds its centuries in layers. Beneath the cobblestones of La Calatrava, medieval tanners who gave the streets their names once worked alongside the merchants who...

In the late 19th century, when phylloxera devastated much of France's vineyards, Mallorca lived through its own golden age of wine, exporting what the continent could no...

In February 1936, a former cook from the Gran Hotel named Jaume Bosch Coves opened a small café on the corner of what was then, and still is, one of the most characterful...