{"id":4081,"date":"2012-03-27T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:25:26","slug":"grumpy-vegan-eating-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/grumpy-vegan-eating-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Vegan Eating Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4085\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_4085\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC1697.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4085\" title=\"Italian tapas Madrid\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC1697-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_4085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clearly, the Grumpy Vegan is happy with the food served. Just don&#39;t get between him and it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Various projects and a stinker of a cold disrupted the Grumpy Vegan&#8217;s commitment to publish fascinating accounts here of what he eats when he travels foreign climes, namely, France and Spain, recently, and, principally here, the latter rather than the former.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh fruits and vegetables prepared and cooked simply with basic ingredients helps to keep the Grumpy Vegan, er, happy.<\/p>\n<p>So, meals taken out and about often end vegetable-based more than anything else. This is not a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The proverbial British vegan staple of an order of &#8216;chips and a salad, please&#8217; and, a pint of beer when in a pub, is tough to beat.<\/p>\n<p>Which is just as well when it comes to such European countries as France, Spain and Italy&#8211;particularly the latter two because they know how to offer simply wonderful and wonderfully simple vegetable dishes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4089\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_4089\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC1695.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4089\" title=\"_DSC1695\" src=\"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC1695-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_4089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#39;s always a moment of panic between the meal being served and moments later when it&#39;s too late to photograph it in all its glory. This is why the dishes in these photos are always partially eaten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For example, the Grumpy Vegan stumbled across in the historic district of Madrid (Mayor Plaza?) an Italian cafe where such a delicious meal was had. Tapas-style plates of spicy potatoes, mixed grilled vegetables, olives and bread to sop it all up with. What&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various projects and a stinker of a cold disrupted the Grumpy Vegan&#8217;s commitment to publish fascinating accounts here of what he eats when he travels foreign climes, namely, France and Spain, recently, and, principally here, the latter rather than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/grumpy-vegan-eating-abroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","tag-glimpses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}