Despite the small scope of the Basque Country -- it has an area of less than 3,000 square miles -- Basque cuisine has a premier position in the culinary world. Straddling the Spanish-French border, ...

The smell of chorizo and roasting peppers. The sound of pil-pil sauce bubbling. The sight of pintxos lined up waiting to be eaten. Basque chefs Igor Ozamiz Goiriena and Igor Cantabrana argue that the ...

Spain is a gastronomic powerhouse, famed worldwide for its punchy flavours and ingredients, from oak-aged wines to classic pintxos. But this traditional cuisine also lends itself brilliantly to fusion ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Bakailaoa pil-pilean (cod in pil-pil sauce). Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives Bakailaoa pil-pilean is perhaps the Basque country’s best known dish.

The small region has 110 miles of coast, which has contributed generous amounts of seafood to the cuisine. Dan Ansotegui, who owns a Basque bar and restaurant in Boise called Gernika and teaches ...

The California gold rush brought the first Basque immigrants to the United States in the 1840s. After the gold dried up, many of their descendants stayed in the Central Valley region, turning to the ...