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Food 
10th March 2021 ‘BANANA TARTE TATIN’ By Helen Westwater of ‘La Ola Fresca’
##Like all the best recipes, this one is a descendant of a little mistake by a shrewd cook who didn’t want to waste her seemingly spoilt ingredients. Back in the 1880s, in a hotel run by the Tatin sisters, one of the sisters accidentally burnt the apples for a pie she was making … but […]
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Music 
10th March 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…. JOSH ROUSE PLAYS ‘SUBTÍTULO’ AT ‘TEATRE EL MUSICAL’ (MARCH 12th)
##On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of “Subtítulo”, which is probably Josh Rouse’s best-known album along with ‘Nashville’, the artist wanted to give some hope for 2021 marked by the coronavirus, commemorating it in a live show, as it contains some of his most personal, joyful and well-known songs. Thus, it will be a […]
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Health 
9th March 2021 ‘MAISON BOUTURE SPAIN’ VISITS VALENCIA ON MARCH 13th / 14th
24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about your visit to Valencia? “We are Maison Bouture Spain, a company dedicated to the organisation of ephemeral plant sales. For a weekend we set up in the centre of a city in Spain and set up an Ephemeral Garden, a space full of all kinds of plants […]
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Music 
7th March 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…(EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW) WITH MIKE MCKOY
1. Tell us something about your background and experiences… My perspective has changed over the years, and I’ve mellowed quite a bit. I enjoy wry humour, which might tempt me to frame my background as something out of an Edvard Munch painting. But that would be nonsense, and perhaps pernicious – because not only have […]
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History 
2nd March 2021 THE BORGIAS (VALENCIA’S MOST INFAMOUS FAMILY)
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo […]
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Music 
2nd March 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC…. ALEX CONDE ‘PIANO FLAMENCO EXPLORATIONS’
24/7 VALENCIA: Can you tell us about your musical training and education? ALEX CONDE: My musical training began at home, at the age of 4, accompanying my father playing his songs, teaching me by ear how to accompany and provide the chords that the melody gives you. When I was 8 years old, thanks to […]
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Art 
1st March 2021 LES ARTS ÉS ÒPERA’… VERDI’S ‘FALSTAFF’ MARCH 2021
##Palau de Les Arts (Valencia) premieres Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’, starring Ambrogio Maestri under the musical direction of Daniele Rustioni. – Les Arts presents Verdi’s last opera in a staging by Mario Martone for the Berlin Staatsoper, which moves the action to a contemporary metropolis.- Ainhoa Arteta, Violeta Urmana, Davide Luciano and Sara Blanch perform, alongside Maestri, […]
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Food 
1st March 2021 SLOW-BRAISED LAMB WITH ONION GRAVY
##So, with winter still with us, I thought it appropriate this month to share a dish with you to warm the cockles of your collective hearts. Casserole and crock-pot time continues to be upon us. Although most people wince at the sound of those “C” words, conjuring memories from ghosts of bad-dinners past, once you’ve […]
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Food 
28th February 2021 ARTICHOKES AND FRENCH PISSALADIER TART
##By Helen Westwater of ‘La Ola Fresca’ There are some vegetable that are beautiful to look at, but when it comes to preparing them it can seem too much of a lengthy process. The aptly named artichoke is a good example. Arty certainly, but can cause some procrastination or blocks when it comes to preparing […]
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Music 
28th February 2021 VALENCIA MUSIC! ‘TARIQ’… EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ANDRÉS BELMONTE
##24/7 Valencia: Andrés, can you take us through your album ‘Tariq’? Andrés Belmonte of Tariq: My trip starts in Valencia, arrives in Cairo via Istanbul and then rests in Valencia once again. On this ‘Tariq’ road appears ‘El Henna’ & ‘Hobbi’, which are compositions by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, a colossus of the golden age of […]
