{"id":359,"date":"2015-10-24T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/?p=359"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:08:09","slug":"cooking-for-spanish-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/2015\/10\/24\/cooking-for-spanish-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking for Spanish Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My name is Fraser Bowen, I\u2019m from the UK, and I studied BA French and German<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On my Erasmus year abroad in Switzerland, I was cooking for a small group of Spanish people. I made the assumption that Spanish people love spicy food, and I made them a very spicy meal. However, it turns out I had got Spanish food mixed up with Mexican food. Mexicans love to put chilli everywhere, but the Spanish have herbs and spices that aren\u2019t chillis. The Spanish people couldn\u2019t finish my food, which I had put extra chilli into, because it was too spicy! It was pretty embarrassing when I said that they should like spicy food, they\u2019re Spanish! It turns out that all the American TV I watch which paints all Hispanic people as Mexican hasn\u2019t helped me develop a very good idea of the different cultures present in the Spanish speaking world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-360 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/files\/2015\/10\/spain-210x300.png\" alt=\"spain\" width=\"116\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/files\/2015\/10\/spain-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/files\/2015\/10\/spain-105x150.png 105w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/files\/2015\/10\/spain.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/files\/2015\/10\/spain.png\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Fraser Bowen, I\u2019m from the UK, and I studied BA French and German On my Erasmus year abroad in Switzerland, I was cooking for a small group of Spanish people. I made the assumption that Spanish people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/2015\/10\/24\/cooking-for-spanish-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029224],"tags":[428651,815982,1029229,58539,1029231],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-my-intercultural-experience","tag-experience","tag-intercultural","tag-mexican","tag-spanish","tag-switzerland","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}