Before it was a recognized gastronomy, the cuisine of Extremadura was for a long time a cuisine of necessity. The post-civil war years were marked by a lack of everything in the kitchens of the Sierra de Gata and Las Hurdes. Women were incredibly ingenious in continuing to feed their families with dignity.

Discover these recipes inherited from the Spanish countryside, where women transformed wild plants, herbs, stale bread, forgotten vegetables, or bark into what was sometimes the only meal of the day, thanks to a few essential ingredients, including olive oil.

We wish to pay a heartfelt tribute to their creativity, their resilience, and a style of cooking where nothing was ever wasted.