BLT Bocadillo
Way back in 2012, I went to Spain for the first time. But rather than spend it in museums or on the beach, I took a different kind of beaten path: the Camino De Santiago across northern Spain. The 3rd most popular pilgrimage in the world (behind Rime and Jerusalem), the Camino attracts people from all over the world looking to experience both an extended period of personal and spiritual growth as well as a cultural immersion into an array of small towns across the Spanish countryside that couldn’t be fully understood in any other way. Walking over 200 miles in 11 days necessarily entailed eating a whole lot of food to sustain it. While our dinners were usually leisurely 3 course meals that allowed us to unwind over the course of several hours of lively conversation, lunches were almost always bocadillos. Common throughout Spain, these baguette sandwiches most commonly containing Serrano ham, Spanish chorizo, Spanish omelette, or some other meat/cheese/vegetable combination are