Galicia’s hearty caldo gallego warms both body and soul
By Sofia Perez
[Published by Saveur, January/February 2007]
Caldo gallego is tailor-made for the dark days of winter. Although I grew up eating this main-course meat and vegetable soup in New York City, it was in fact born of the damp, bone-chilling winters of Galicia, the mountainous region in the northwestern corner of Spain, where both of my parents were raised.
In the village of Niñodaguia, my mother helped her mamá peel potatoes and trim grelos (a variety of broccoli rabe that gives the dish its signature green hue), and she watched as the flames from the wood fire licked the bottom of the large iron pot…
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