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Fabada Asturiana, A Bloody Good Stew #FoodNFlix

This month's  Food'N'Flix  event was hosted by my friend Evelyne over at  CulturEatz . You can read her invitation:  here . She asked us to watch  Volver .* The title of the movie didn't sound familiar, but once I popped in the DVD, I kept having strange déjà vu . About the third time I thought to myself "______ is about to happen," and it did, I had to admit that I must have watched it before! On the Screen... The instant the movie begins, you have a sense it's going to be a strange one. The boys were coming in and out when I was watching it, asking, "Why are you watching a telenovela ?" It's not a telenovela. "It looks like one." It does, actually. There's sex, scandals, heartbreak, and death. This film, to pull from one scene when there's blood on Raimunda (played by Penelope Cruz), is about "women's troubles." It's about women across generations helping each other, hurting each oth...