A double play on the Catalan words for wise and grandmother, Gastrosàvies provides a platform for more than 100 women of a certain age to share videos cooking traditional dishes “with a view to preserving and communicating traditional Catalan cuisine for future generations”. Photograph: Rex FeaturesMaria Antònia Udina, 76, cooking at home. View image in fullscreen Maria Antònia Udina is one of women who contributed videos on traditional Catalan cooking. Photograph: Pablo García/The GuardianView image in fullscreen ‘Catalonia is small but we have mountains and sea and we like mixing the two,’ Udina says. For example, Udina says, wild mushrooms are a staple of Catalan cooking but at Can Fabes, “we had six or seven dishes that were all made with wild mushrooms, including an ice-cream”.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2025 10:27 UTC