Esmorzaret: Valencia’s Mid-Morning Meal Tradition Explained
If you think breakfast is solemn and lunch inevitable, let me introduce you to the Valencian “esmorzaret”— or “almuerzo” if you prefer the Spanish label. It’s that unapologetically indulgent mid-morning break, where coffee sometimes arrives with a cheeky splash of booze, sandwiches are treated like matters of state, and everyone agrees — for at least…