#2: Food

So again I apologize for not updating this thing as much as I´d like, the days here fly by so fast and there´s so much to do. Nevertheless, here I am to talk about the food.
Of course if any of you are familiar with the Mediterreanean diet, you know there is lots of oil. This doesn´t sound too healthly, but everything either cooked or dipped in olive oil is much healthier than what we cook with in the States. My favorite Catalan dishes are as follows: Tomate bread (smeared tomatoe on bread), Tortilla de patatas (Potato omelete usually eaten in a bocadillo or sandwich form), paella, mussels, gespacho (Andalucian gespacho from southern spain is had with cucumbers, croutons, cheese and onions, very delicious), crema de catalunya (tastes just like creme brulet, but the Catalonians always want to be different) and who can forget the Kebabs or Falefals. There are many kebab stands around Barcelona that will give you a lot of food for only €3-4. My friends and I have made friends with one of the kebab vendors near the Arc de Triomf.
The meals are generally as follows: a light breakfast in the morning, mid-morning snack, lunch is eaten generally from 2-4pm and is the largest meal of the day, and the entire city shuts down and reopens again at 4, usually tapas are eaten with a drink from 6-7, and finally dinner usually from 9-11. My senora generally eats salad and the first dish of dinner which is usually pasta, some type of mixed caper salad or soup, because she says she´s fat. This is funny because she´s not, but more on that when I write about the people.