La fiesta de San Pedro Nolasco??

La fiesta más rara de todo el mundo…

La Virgen de Guadalupe

La fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe es el 12 de diciembre.

Aquí se explica la imagen de la Virgen.

Aquí se explica la importancia de Su aparición.

Todo está bien.  Pero ahora tengo curiosidad de otro plato caribeño.

¡¿El arroz con pollo, compinche?!

Sí.  ¡Lo necesito saber prepararlo también!

Ah, aqui tienes otro video para preparar un buen arroz con pollo.

¡Qué plato muy rico, la ropa vieja!

Pero, ¡¿Cómo se elabora?!

No problema.  Mira el video,amigo.

El poema de los azulejos en la página del vocabulario de “la poesía.”

Es un poema por el poeta español Federcio García Lorca llamado Romance sonámbulo.

Este vínculo te tomará a una copia bilingüe del poema.

¡Disfrutad!

Secrets of the Superfruit

After the emergence of Quinoa in American markets, the food industry is turning its attention to Latin America once again.  However, this time these culinary entrepreneurs are in the market for a super fruit called the "pitaya."

Somewhere in a warehouse near downtown Philadelphia, Eric Helms is hoarding pitayas. "It is low in sugar," he explains of the Nicaragua-grown fruit, "and it's very of the moment." Or so he hopes: now that he's bought exclusive U.S. importing rights to the pitaya, he's blending it into upwards-of-$8 concoctions at his Juice Generation bars in New York City. In a few months, he says, it just might become America's next great superfruit.

He's not alone. After the success Pom Wonderful has had juicing high-antioxidant pomegranates, a new generation of entrepreneurs is aiming to parlay the health benefits of other fringe crops into million-dollar superfruit empires. In the past year alone, we've witnessed the emergence of the golden berry, the baobab fruit, the lingonberry and others.

But are they really as healthy as they seem? Like all fruits, superfruits tend to be high in fiber and antioxidants, which make them better snacks than most. But experts worry that the superfruit label--which comes from marketers, not the FDA--tricks people into thinking a single serving can confer all health benefits, "which is not true," says Jeffrey Blumberg, a nutrition professor at Tufts University. In the right mix, though, pitayas and their ilk can indeed be super. They just might have to mingle with the masses. "Apples and bananas are good too," says Blumberg.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2133328,00.html#ixzz2IEx88yPy

Sifferlin, Alexandra. "Secrets of the Superfruit." Time. 21 Jan 2013: n. page. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2133328,00.html>.

   

Un documental más detallado de Jai Alai.

El deporte de los Vascos, su origen, su práctica, y el juego deazar.

¡¿Guy Fieri y la comida cubana?!

La relajación de las leyes cubanas. ¿Una buena señal para relaciones con EEUU?

Starting early next year, the Cuban government will eliminate the requirement that citizens who are planning to travel to other nations obtain an exit visa, official permission to go abroad. A notice in Granma, the island nation's Communist Party newspaper, stated that once the policy takes effect on Jan. 13, Cuban citizens will also no longer have to present a letter of invitation to visit another country. They will have to show only their passport and visas for their destination countries. President Ral Castro pledged last year to get rid of the widely resented exit visas. The decision to do so is a sign that the party is answering calls for reform without surrendering much power. October marks the 50th anniversary of the 13-day Cuban missile crisis, during which tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union almost exploded into nuclear war.

Notice:  The Communist newspaper “Granma” is named after the boat in which Castro and his fighters landed in Cuba from Mexico to begin their invasion of Cuba.

"Cuba." Time Magazine. 29 2012: n. page. Web. 22 Oct. 2012.

           <http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2127186-3,00.html>.

Un problema mexicano.

'They left through the door.'

JORGE LUIS MORAN, public-security secretary of the Mexican state of Coahuila, on the escape of more than 100 prisoners. The men were thought to have dug a tunnel, but now guards are accused of helping the inmates in an escape orchestrated by Los Zetas cartel

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2125506,00.html#ixzz28341apqw

"Mexico." Time. 08 Oct 2012: 15. Print.

¡ESPAÑA EN GUERRA!

The autonomous region of Catalonia made a new push for independence when its president, Artur Mas, called for a referendum on Nov. 25 to start "a process of auto-determination." His announcement came two weeks after an estimated 1.5 million Catalans held a pro-independence march in Barcelona and days after the central government rejected Catalonia's request for a bailout of 5 billion euros. Spain's economic crisis has heightened separatist sentiment in the country's wealthiest yet most indebted region. Catalans believe that the taxes they have been paying to Madrid have been mismanaged and that the bailout they requested is money that should be returned to their region. Meanwhile, anti-austerity protests rocked the Spanish capital yet again, as demonstrators marched on the country's parliament building and confronted police, leading to at least 64 people being injured.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2125506,00.html#ixzz2832s04tw

"Spain." Time. 08 Oct 2012: 14. Print.

Catalonia's Call for Secession.

En el blog del primer nivel (segundo nivel, me olvido) hay un <<post>> que os explica las rezones por hacer ilegal las corridas de los toros en la región de Cataluña.  Esta es una adición a la discusión de la querida independencia de Cataluña:

SPAIN
Sept. 11 always brings Barcelonans into the streets to dance the sardana, sing for their enemies' blood in the anthem "Els Segadors" and chant political slogans in celebration of their national holiday, the Diada de Catalunya. But this year a new intensity colored the Catalans' nationalist fervor. A pro-independence march, which has never before drawn more than 50,000 people, pulled in a crowd estimated by city police at 1.5 million. And every newspaper in the city carried the results of a new poll that revealed a once unimaginable transformation: half the population of Catalonia supports secession from Spain.
It wasn't always thus. Unlike the Basques, whose support for independence from Spain has run high for generations, most Catalans have traditionally favored greater autonomy over outright secession. The recent surge in secessionist support is closely tied to Spain's economic crisis. Although Catalonia is the wealthiest region in Spain, it is also the most heavily in debt, running a fiscal deficit of 8%. In 2009, the latest year for which figures are available, Catalonia provided 19.49% of the federal government's tax revenue yet received only 14.03% of its spending. It is that discrepancy, says Catalonia's president, Artur Mas, that explains the region's deficit. Mas has called for a fiscal reform that would enable his government to collect its own taxes and turn over a designated amount to the central state, rather than the other way around. The economic crisis has also increased pro-independence sentiment in less concrete ways. As small businesses--once a mainstay of the Catalan economy--find it harder to survive and young people find it increasingly difficult to find jobs, independence is viewed as a panacea.
On Sept. 11, it seemed as if everything was fine. As hundreds of thousands of people wrapped themselves in independence flags and danced their way down the Via Laietana and the Gran Via, the mood was markedly festive. But a darker reality lay just beneath the surface. "The frustration is enormous," says Montserrat Guibernau, a Catalan academic. "Secession was always unthinkable in Catalonia. But it's precisely at moments like this that the unthinkable can occur."


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2124411,00.html#ixzz26jmZR1S6

 

Abend, Lisa. "Catalonia's Call for Secession." Time. 24 September 2012: 14. Print.

Capítulo 1 - Cocina hispana

Tortilla española es una receta para 6 personas, del tipo Entrantes, Plato único, de dificultad Media y lista en 35 minutos. Fíjate cómo cocinar la receta. 

 

Ingredientes

1 kg de patatas

9 huevos

1 cebolla mediana

Aceite de oliva

Sal

Cómo hacer Tortilla española

Pelamos lavamos y cortamos las patatas en cuadritos pequeños y las salamos. Pelamos y cortamos en juliana la cebolla.

Ponemos al fuego una sartén honda con abundante aceite de oliva y cuando esté caliente, echamos las patatas y la cebolla.

Mantenemos el fuego no muy fuerte, para que las patatas y la cebolla se cuezan en el aceite. Cuando estén bien blandas y ligeramente doradas, las sacamos de la sartén y escurrimos el aceite. 

En un bol batimos los huevos hasta conseguir una buena mezcla. Echamos entonces las patatas y la cebolla sobre los huevos batidos y removemos bien para que quede todo mezclado y rectificamos de sal.

Poner al fuego una sartén honda antiadherente, echamos dos cucharadas de aceite de oliva y cuando esté caliente, movemos la sartén para que quede bien aceitado el fondo. Entonces echamos la mezcla de huevos, patatas y cebolla y la extendemos bien. Bajamos el fuego y movemos la sartén con movimientos circulares para que la tortilla se mueva dentro y no se pegue. Dejamos cocer hasta que se vea que empieza a hervir la mezcla.

Damos la vuelta a la tortilla poniendo un plato llano encima de la sartén, a modo de tapadera, y girando la sartén sobre el plato. Ahora echaremos de nuevo la tortilla, dejándola resbalar cuidadosamente, desde el plato a la sartén.

Movemos de nuevo con movimientos circulares la sartén y la dejamos cocer entre 2 y 3 minutos, dependiendo del gusto de los comensales. Apartamos y servimos en una fuente. Podemos servirla frí­a o caliente.    

Cinco de Mayo

¿Quiere saber la historia sobre el cinco de mayo?  Visite:
                       http://www.nacnet.org/assunta/spa5may.htm

La palabra del mes

Mole

La palabra del mes

La cuaresma

El rincón de la escritora

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán, autora española nacida en La Coruña, Galicia, en 1851, es considerada una de las figuras literarias más importantes del siglo XIX.  Escribió mucho y en varios géneros, hasta su muerte en 1921.  Aristocrática e intelectual, fue la primera mujer en recibir una cátedra de literatura en la Universidad de Madrid.  Sus ideas feministas son evidentes en la revista que escribió y publicó personalmente por muchos años.  Se dice que sus obras ayudaron a iniciar el debate sobre el feminismo en España.  En sus obras de ficción, en el cuento y en la novela, se destacan las descripciones muy detalladas del ambiente y de los personajes.

El escritorio de ayuda

Si necesita alguna práctica con los verbos, la gramática o el vocabulario, es buena idea visitar:
                                                      http://conjuguemos.com/
                                                      http://webworkbook.com/spanish

Las Fallas

¿Qué pasa en España?  La respuesta es Las Fallas.  Las Fallas tienen lugar en Valencia, España desde el 15 hasta el 19 de marzo de cada año.  Ocurren en honor de San José y por eso terminan en su día del honor- el 19 de marzo.  Lea mas sobre este festival:
                                      http://www.valencia-cityguide.com/ (haga clic en Las Fallas)