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What Time Do The Basques Eat Dinner? | The Expeditioner Travel Site

What Time Do The Basques Eat Dinner?

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Trick question. The answer is that it depends. Are you in Spanish or French Basque country? What’s the difference? To find out, the NYT takes a road trip through both countries, starting from the westernmost part of the region in the beach town of Bakio — about an hour north of Bilbao — where it’s easy for one to forget they’re even in Spain, then across the border into France to St.-Jean-de-Luz and nearby Bidart, where the Basqueness is hidden beneath a veneer of definite French culture, and where it takes a little gastronomical research to uncover the region’s history (shops selling Basque favorites fromage de brebis and cherry marmalades).

And to answer the question?

“The two halves are connected: more than cousins, but not quite brothers. And yet they borrow tradition as well from their host countries. To start the day in Spain and end in France, or vice versa, was to play roulette with eating times: Spanish Basques eat with Spain, lunch at 2 or 3 and dinner at 10. The French Basques eat with Paris, lunch at 12:30 and dinner at 8.”

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