If you’re anything like me and love good food, by all means, please take the trip to Spain for the Food Production and the Environment. The Mediterranean diet is known for being the healthiest diet in the world and with food being as good as it is in Spain, I…
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Growing up, my next door neighbors, and parents best friends were from Spain. They owned a small Spanish import company where they imported different cheeses, cured meats, wine, and olive oil, and always talked about how amazing Spain was. I grew up surrounded by the culture, eating different Spanish dishes,…
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Olive trees. You can be driving down any road in Spain and you’re bound to see some sort of Olive production. Whether it be a few trees in someone’s back yard, or a thousand acre operation or an actual processing plant itself, you’re bound to see it anywhere you go….
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The food. THE FOOD. Spain is known for its production of different pork products. It’s not just a staple in their diet, it’s THE staple. Some that people will pay an arm and a leg for the different cuts and the varieties are endless. You could easily walk into…
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After being home from Spain for a month or so now, I am able to look back on the trip and see how it impacted my life and my hunt to become a future agricultural communicator. With the trip being centered around food production and culture, we discussed topics that…
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During the trip to Spain we took a trip to Alcudia de Guadix where we made bread and cheese in cave houses. The first cave we went into we were able to make cheese from goat milk. We added renin extracted from a plant in order to separate the curds…
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Before my trip to Spain, I had no experience leaving the country on my own. The farthest I had even gone out of the country was to Mexico a few years ago. I did not know anybody that was going to be on this trip, nor had any experience in…
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Going abroad was an absolutely insane thought to me because I had never even thought about traveling abroad. Needless to say, there were many doubts. The flight, the language barrier, the cost, the everything. It was all something that I was.. skeptical about needless to say. Once landing in Spain,…
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Even though I’m not exactly interested in crop growing, I was surprised at how interesting I found the olive farm to be. I think the only experience I’ve had with olive oil is when it is served with bread at an Italian food restaurant. I’m not a very ambitious cook,…
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Let me begin by saying, the University of Georgia Spain Maymester was the best decision I have ever made. We saw beautiful architecture, ate amazing fruit and food, experienced the amazing Spanish culture, etc. Here is just a little bit of Spain that we were able to experience on this…
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