Impossible to miss the gofio when one is interested in the culture of the Canary Islands! When I moved to Tenerife to open my bed and breakfast Un Jardin al Mar, I discovered this simple and nourishing food, inherited from the aboriginal Guanches people and still very present in the local cuisine.

Canarian gastronomy is like its archipelago: authentic, mixed and deeply rooted in local resources. For a long time marked by simplicity, it combines products from the land, fish from the Atlantic, and African, Spanish, and Latin-American influences.

The history of wine in Tenerife dates back to the conquest of the island in the 15th century. Spanish and Portuguese settlers introduced vine cultivation, which quickly found ideal conditions on the volcanic slopes of the north.