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Clean air and pure water, mielato de quercus (holm oaks, gall oaks and cork oaks) and tireless bees gives us its best sweet honey with an chestnut colour and a strong vegetal flavour: the forest's honey.

Gastronomy of Ronda and its Region

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2006-02-16 17:12:13

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Fertile Nature...

Clean air and pure water, mielato de quercus (holm oaks, gall oaks and cork oaks) and tireless bees gives us its best sweet honey with an chestnut colour and a strong vegetal flavour: the forest's honey.

It's autumn time, and at the valleys of the rivers Genal and Yunquera the noble chestnut trees are dressed with its light dresses... Each leaf of each tree turns into red, deep red and ruby, gold,... It's time for the eagle's rise, time to light fire and time to toast the sweet chestnut...

Apart from variety and richess, our humid and dense forests offers the goddess' delicacy: the mushroom. Different kinds of it, an delicious flavour born at the ground.

Other nature's products are offered as well, like the fresh and biological vegetables, legumes, fruits, wild asparagus, Spanish oister plant, snails, hunting meat, ... being the base for a diverse and delicious traditional cooking.
A colourful mountain range..

The characteristics of the fruits raised at a certain ecosystem are caused by the place's conditions: altitude, ground, climatology... giving to the fruits authenticity and distinction.Due to these reasons, the olive of the Serrania, at its optimal ripeness, brings to the life to its most noble esence, the olive oil, being made in Cuevas del Becerro, Atajate, Jubrique, El Burgo and Yunquera at the tradtional olive-oil mills, giving us a pure olive oil, a real treasure for our health.

In Ronda, where the gest olive groves are combined with the best extraction techniques, is obtained a pure olive oil, with low acidity, with a golden with some green glances colour, with an intense fragance and a wonderful taste. A real "Dorado" for the Serrania.
And ancient traditions...

As a result of choosing always the best raw materials, the blond or violet pigs, rised at a natural and healthy environment consisting of holm oaks forests, which give ...