Ice cream is a summer classic that helps us beat the heat. It’s always delicious, with flavours ranging from lemon slushes to true delicacies made with frozen churned milk and mixed with other ingredients, forming countless different flavours. But where does ice cream come from? The history of ice cream Apparently, the Chinese were the...
Whether dining at home, celebrating with family or friends, or going out to a restaurant, New Year’s Eve on 31 December is a special time. We say farewell to one year and welcome another, and we do it with a well-laid table, a special meal, and dressed for the occasion. It’s the ritual. The shopping...
In the week of All Saints, 31st October, the tradition here is roast chestnuts and the marzipan sweets known as panellets, perhaps the most popular example of autumn cookery. But these are not the only seasonal food: pomegranates, sweet potatoes, wild mushrooms and quinces are all considered essential in this country. We recommend a festive...
Ice creams are the star treat in summer – refreshing, hydrating and delicious – even though they make great desserts in winter too! For some years now, frozen yoghurt has also been on our list of cool delicacies. Again, not exclusively a summer product, but as with ice cream, a sweet treat to beat the...
The range of options for dining and leisure on offer at illa Carlemany is not to be found anywhere else in the country. Under one roof, in the centre of Andorra, you’ll find ten restaurants and a unique cinema complex, with six theatres and a total of 1,022 seats. Food services are mainly located on...
Breakfasts on the terrace, dinners in the open air, lunch in the shade of the garden… Summer invites you to share meals and relax around the table with friends and family, and you can make the most of it by preparing a pleasant and welcoming atmosphere, including everything from the tableware to inviting decorative details...
Even if the label tells us that a wine is a reserve, organic, or from a particularly renowned vineyard, this still doesn’t guarantee that it will be better than another wine, all things considered. Indeed, there are additional aspects that determine which wines will be better, or more suitable for specific occasions. There are also...
The pandemic has just about brought mobility around the world to a standstill, and caused many people’s wanderlust to fade. To counter this, we can take refuge in films, books, and also in the aromas and flavours of the Nespresso “Word Exploration” coffee collection. You can find it at the brand’s one and only store...
The public escudella stews made on Sant Antoni and Sant Sebastià are an Andorran tradition that typically bring many people together. Due to COVID-19, however, this year they will be cancelled or celebrated in a different way. The origin of this tradition is twofold: to offer something to the poor, and as respite against the...
Here in Andorra it’s very common for people to head over to a bar or café for a drink after work, yet one variation that we’ve inherited from the Anglo-Saxon culture is after-work socialising, specifically with the people from work. This custom has been typified in different US TV series, where a bar becomes the...
