When Ramuntxo’s grandmother – whom he used to call “Amuma” – was alive, no dinner felt complete without her codfish stew with red peppers. It was a recipe passed down from her parents who, like her husband’s, had been born in little villages along northern Spain’s Bay of Biscay, or Bizkaia, as they called that beautiful strip of land in Basque, their beloved mother tongue. And like many Basques, they made the decision to sail over to the US sometime just after the First World War for a piece of that American dream – to work as shepherds in Idaho.
Sailing and sheep herding. The oldest professions in the Basque country. No reasons why these Old World skills wouldn’t bring them prosperity in the New.
And so perfectly-suited for the New World, flanked by two vast oceans with plenty of land i
