Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez, from Écija to Europe with the taste of traditional confectionary

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Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez is the manager of San Martín de Porres a confectionary business in Écija and with more than fifty years of history, it is a symbol of the Sevillian province. Their specialties include, traditional oil and butter ‘tortas,’ which on a daily basis leave the Écija factory on their way to England, France, […]

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Francisco Raya, innovative confectionary overcoming the effects of the economic crisis

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The Nuestra Señora de Valme sweet shop is a family business in Dos Hermanas, Seville. Francisco is its founder. 70 different types of puff-pastry leave its work shop daily, attracting thousands of consumers from the district’s different towns. Some pastries have even travelled as far as Argentina and England. Thus, through innovating a traditional sweet, […]

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Pastries from Seville’s cloistered convents sent to homes throughout Spain through e-commerce

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Sevilian entrepreneur Elisenda García has created hechoenelconvento.com [madeintheconvent.com], a website directed at selling pastries manufactured by cloistered nuns. These are natural products with deep-seated roots in traditional baking that the client can enjoy in a few hours and without leaving his or her house. Elisenda collaborates with nuns in the province of Seville, while she […]

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