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218 - "Sa greixonera rope" (The strapped casserole)

Dedicated to my two most faithful readers, my cousins \u200b\u200bCati, Switzerland and Apollonia, in Campos, Mallorca or Apollonia and Cati, lest I put jealous ...

Pan, pan, pan, pot, pan, piñata, pot, pot, pot, vessel, container. All words that refer the symbol par excellence of the kitchen. However, even in the presence of this number of words, there was always home, and despite the distance between the Balearic Islands and Buenos Aires, a Majorcan absolutely iconic: the word "greixonera" which was used by all of us if instead of living in the city of tango, we did on the island of the glass and the "bot ball."

only a "greixonera" could develop the flavors islanders Argentine products. It arose from the hands of my grandmother salt (a native of Ses Salines) and saucy, vegetable dishes, rice substantial, or that "tumbet" unforgettable. Even the typical Italian-style stew is so common in this country on Sunday, was cooked slowly in earthenware pot generous mouth, which my grandfather brought memories of his native Marratxí, the quintessential land of clay, home home artisans and undisputed "siurell."

fact, he was my grandfather, the head of "mind you." In Castilian would be "banded" ceñirlas wire to resist, courageous, without breaking, the attacks by temperature changes. The grandfather "roped" our "greixonera" and all the fellow countrymen and Mallorcan friends who were also neighbors, since most of the community lived in a distant perimeter no more than thirty blocks from the Casa Balear, in the neighborhood of Boedo.

"Mestre Marçal" read "Mado" Margalida, in combination with Castilian Spaniard denoting how immigrants gradually lost part of its original language but not the corresponding terms of finding your destination: "I "Makers" is "greixonera?" And there, to clean wire and pliers, he tied the pan just right: not so tight that its walls were cut with a warm fire, nor so loose that would break as it cools. So

"Mado" Margalida (or Aina or Joana) left for home, proud, with its tight and ready to pot rice "sec" or "grazing" or coca ensaimada good that, despite not need the fire, found in it the ideal nest for weighed.

I recently had the pleasure of touring the farm Esporles, and see in it "greixonera cordate" in the same way my grandfather did. I marveled at having enjoyed, small, in full Reina del Plata, so far from the islands, ancient customs and traditions and cherished like cooking in an authentic clay pot, the Majorcan style.

Cati Cobas