Today we want to tell you about an autumnal Spanish tradition, which guides whole families, tourists and adventure enthusiasts to dimmed, deep woods.

Hunting mushrooms for Catalans is a way of spending weekend mornings with family. For local boletaires is a perfect moment to show their talents and for tourists is just a great experience of tasting pure Spanish culture.

Bolet is the Catalan word for mushrooms. When you come to Spain in the season of hunting, it’s sure that you’ll see restaurants’ and bars’ menus filled with dishes based on all edible variations of bolets.

Spaniards as a nation of people who pay an exceptional attention to the culinary art, discovered in picking mushrooms a true passion!

An example of person, whose experience reaches more than 50 years is Llorenç Petrás, an icon. His market stall at La Boqueria is a legend! When you come to Barcelona, you have to go there, at least to see how somebody can care about the business.

Llorenç Petrás at La Boqueria, photo by: Aneta Maciejewska

Spanish forests hoard about 175 different species of edible mushrooms. 35 of them are usually picked by gatherers and here we present you the most typical one: Rovelló.

Photos by: Aneta Maciejewska

Rovelló, known as Bloody Milk Cap is the most typical mushroom from Catalonia. The special flavour, texture and taste is very high-valued  in the gastronomy world. It is characterised by the wine-coloured liquid that comes out of it when it’s cut. This liquid has a rust colour that quickly turns a greenish hue.

Even now, we do not encourage you to gather mushrooms only by yourself. Each year a lot of people become poisoned due to eating toxic mushrooms.

To give you a nice alternative for picking mushrooms on your own, we found an interesting and worthy your time trip…

Near Barcelona countryside, in a province called Gombrèn, Francesc Rovira runs his restaurant. As a Michelin starred chef, he offers an unusual culinary experience.

Francesc Rovira, photo by: http://www.timetravelturtle.com/

He offers:

Mini-break, forest excursion and show cooking or gastronomic weekend, forest excursion and show cooking – for all details click here.

If you would like to know somebody’s impression about this event, you can also take a look at this website.

Catalan culinary art is diverse, brave and wild. To explore the pure taste of our gastonomic heritage, we invite you to our tapas tour.

With us, you will be able to enjoy a careful selection of the best and most popular dishes, prepared with the best quality products, in the nicest places, at the best times.

¡Hasta pronto!