How to Eat Coca
Photos and words by Salina Christmas

Coca, a type of Catalan pastry, is one of my happiest discoveries in Barcelona.

My Catalan host says it's something that you eat wherever, whenever with your family and friends.

To us food tourists, it's actually a picnic dish. Not quite a snack, not really a dessert (see video).

For example, you eat coca when you camp out on the beach with mates on San Joan's Eve, which falls on the 23rd of June, while watching fireworks.

I bought this mediocre €4 coca from the local supermarket. The locals would normally buy a more expensive and better-tasting one from a good pattiserie.

SALINA'S OTHER FOOD ADVENTURES
Ich bin Ein Berliner! (May/June 2009)
It's not all kebabs in Istanbul (January 2009)