{"id":10705,"date":"2019-12-24T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2019-12-24T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:01:26","slug":"magical-evening-homemade-treats-mojacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/magical-evening-homemade-treats-mojacar\/","title":{"rendered":"A magical Moj\u00e1car Christmas evening full of music and dance with homemade treats and sweets."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As every year, as part of their festive programme, Moj\u00e1car Council reserves a very special time to celebrate some traditional Almer\u00edan Christmas cuisine and, there is nothing more typical than yule logs, turr\u00f3n, rosquillas and mantecados with their delicious smells.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The tables in the town\u2019s Centro de Usos M\u00faltiples were filled with all these homemade cakes and sweets, along with hot chocolate, giving everyone the chance to sample free of charge the age old local bakery techniques time that fill Mojaqueros homes over these weeks.<br \/>\n\tMost of the confectionary on offer had been made by the local ladies, with ingredients provided by the Council for these pastrycooks to put their love and skill into these Christmas flavours that have passed from generation to generation.<br \/>\nThe event is an initiative that has been held for some years now, with a growing appreciation, ensuring the old recipes, some made with local seasonal products, are not forgotten along with the importance of gastronomy to the culture and roots of the region.<br \/>\n\tMoj\u00e1car\u2019s Mayor, Rosmari Cano and her Government Team were on hand to serve the products along with the stories behind the sweets for those who wanted to know more.<br \/>\nThe Mayor highlighted the town\u2019s old traditions and, even in times when the town had only modest resources, at Christmas the doors of all homes were always open to share some candy made by the grandmothers.<br \/>\n\tIt was an evening when many people of all nationalities came together to experience some seasonal specialities, as well as compare cultural differences and similarities whilst enjoying the festive tasting.  The gastronomic event included dance performances by Nicky Mainstone\u2019s Prodanza and Natalia L\u00f3pez\u2019s Ultima Fusi\u00f3n, with singing by the well-loved \u201cEmbrujo Mojaquero\u201d and \u201cLa Fuente\u201d choirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As every year, as part of their festive programme, Moj\u00e1car Council reserves a very special time to celebrate some traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}