The playa (beach) has near-holy status in Spain, a country hemmed by some 8000km (5000 miles) of coastline that canters from tiny pine-clasped rocky cove to dune-rippled beach, glitzy Mediterranean harbor and surf-smashed Atlantic bay without breaking a sweat. Toss in crazily pretty cliff-top villages so white they make you blink, chiringuitos (beach bars) where […]

  Let’s talk about something gross that we’ve all encountered in the kitchen: a stinky sponge. You know the one – it smells like a mix of old food and mildew, and you’re not quite sure if it’s doing more harm than good. Well, I hate to break it to you, but that smelly sponge […]