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A delicious experience: The Mallorca Food and Drinks
Considering that Mallorca is in a Mediterranean location, it has, without question, a Mediterranean diet which is today so highly praised. Rationally, the locals consume the island produce that they cultivate that consist of fruits and vegetables and livestock ( pigs, suckling pigs, cows, and lamb).
For a relatively small island, with a population of less than a million, there is a surprising number of 1,200 restaurants in Mallorca offering cookery of all promising types. Even so, Mallorcan cuisine is not to be forgotten with dishes such as “tumbet” (a Mallorcan-style ratatouille of aubergines, potatoes and peppers in olive oil), “frit” or frit mallorqui (a fry-up of the most perishable offal with potatoes, onions and tomatoes), rabbit in onions, roast suckling pig, shoulder of lamb or fish like fried red mullet, boiled scorpion fish, or toothed bream Mallorcan style. Stuffed meats such as the famous “sobrasada” and the “botifarrones” are also offered. Paella is not a Mallorcan dish but it is far and wide obtainable.
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Desserts are not Mallorca’s strong point , most desserts and pastries are of Arab and Jewish derivation. Helado (ice cream) and flan (creme caramel are favorites). Mallorcans are very confident of ensaimadas which is considered as a magnificent Mallorcan cake (fluffy, spiral-shaped pastries dusted with sugar and filled with anything from pumpkin jam to sausage. Cheeses include Mahon from Menorca and Manchego from central Spain.
Mallorca wines enjoyed a period of massive popularity at some stage in the last century, but many of the vines were ruined by phylloxera. Currently, Mallorca is continually striving to win back their reputation in terms of producing highly-praised red and white quality wines.
The cerveza (Spanish beer) are available everywhere. Sherry is always fine- dry and chilled. The coñac or Spanish brandy comes in a baffling variety of bottles and is added to coffee at any time of day.
Other local gentle drinks are freshly squeezed orange juice (zumo de naraja), the orxata (almond milk), café solo (a small shot of strong black coffee), tea, and even the manzanilla (chamomile) for those who want a relaxing feeling.
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