The chef Mikel de Luis—who grew up in Bilbao, Spain, and was a mentee of the many-Michelin-starred Spanish chef Martín Berasategui—was, in mid-March, 2020, ready to open Haizea, a tiny Basque- and ...
STORY: These fishermen from Spain's treacherous "Death Coast" are braving crashing waves to harvest a prized Christmas food: the gooseneck barnacle. But the future of the delicacy is now under threat.
One such is the barnacle. Long considered a nuisance by mariners and beachgoers, barnacles are never considered food in the U.S., yet in Spain and Portugal, they form a popular working-class foodstuff ...