Other regions

Some products come from a single valley and have no region of their own on this map. Smoked paprika in La Vera, saffron in La Mancha, piquillos in the Ribera del Ebro.

Celestino Tovar and his niece Marisa at the door of the smoking house in Pasarón de la Vera

The plain of La Mancha with vineyards, stubble and windmills in the distance

Almost all of them have an older person behind them with no one to take over, and a younger one who is thinking about it. Celestino is spending his last autumn by the fire. Juliana has been stripping saffron for seventy years.

Juliana Toledano and her granddaughter Irene in a kitchen full of saffron flowers

We are not going to buy all of this. We sell it because if nobody sells it abroad, in a few years nobody will be making it.

Hundreds of mussel rafts on the ria de Arousa seen from the island pier

Who works here

Rebeca y Ángel Moya
La Veguilla · Membrilla
When their wine co-op closed, they took on Pedro's pistachio trees.
Marisa y Celestino Tovar
Secadero de Pasarón · Pasarón de la Vera
Uncle and niece who smoke paprika over oak for fifteen days straight.
Irene y Juliana Toledano
Rosa de Camuñas · Camuñas
Grandmother and granddaughter who strip saffron flowers at night in the kitchen.
Celia Durán y Agustín Lobato
Dehesa El Rincón · Fregenal de la Sierra
A sixty-seven-year-old swineherd and the vet who knows every sow by her ear.
Mónica y Óscar Velasco
Curados del Eresma · Cantimpalos
Brother and sister who have split the weeks at the workshop since 2018.
Nacho Robles
Cecinas de La Collada · Vegacervera
He went back to Vegacervera for a few weeks and reopened his grandfather's drying house.
Ainhoa y Pili Echarri
Huerta de Sartaguda · Sartaguda
Mother and daughter who roast and peel the piquillos from their garden by hand.
Xiana Otero
Bateas da Illa · A Illa de Arousa
The first woman in her family to work the mussel rafts, with two of them in the Ría de Arousa.
Javier y Álvaro Sáenz
La Sartén de Arnedo · Arnedo
Father and son who fry crisps in a pan in what used to be a shoe shop.
Gema y Lorenzo Carrasco
Quesería Los Rastrojos · Herencia
A shepherd father and a cheesemaker daughter, with milk from a single flock.