Alright, I know what those of you with dirty minds were thinking when you read the title… but I’ve come here to talk about food. And about British food, no more no less! Oh, but – some of you will be thinking – is there such thing as British food? Well, perhaps it’s just because I am such a devoted anglophile, but here you have a fervent defender of Great Britain’s much maligned cuisine and of the culinary landscape that is to be found today in not so Grim Britain. Because, honestly, the situation has changed an awful lot since I first set foot in the United Kingdom, where I went to work as an au pair for a Scottish family, having just turned eighteen.
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Galicia’s two main publishing houses, Galaxia and Xerais, have joined forces to publish a unique two-volume Anthology of Galician Literature in a project involving renowned translators, amongst them project curator Jonathan Dunne, to promote Galicia’s great literary tradition in the English-speaking world
The 23rd of April was world book day(1), which first celebrated by UNESCO in 1995 in order to encourage reading and to promote the publishing industry and the protection of the intellectual property rights of authors. This date was chosen because it marks the death of three major writers: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616).