75 Minutos’ thorough reporters give us an up-close-and-personal look into the fascinating daily lives of everyday Spanish people. While “Del Campo a la mesa” explores the hardships that many farmers endure in order to bring our food “From the Field to the Table,” “Gangas para ricos” [“Bargains for the Rich”] provides insight into Spain’s expanding market of secondhand goods.
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Adv-Intermediate
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On the first episode of this several-part series about Andalusian farmers, we begin to explore how these hard-working folks bring typical regional products like olives, avocados and chestnuts "From the Field to the Table."
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
In this episode, the hostess continues to explore the lives of Andalusian farmers in La Campana, a small town in Seville, and wakes up early to accompany them on their way to work harvesting olives.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The olive harvest season has arrived and many Spanish migrant workers must say goodbye to their homes and families for months at time.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
In this episode, we meet a family of chestnut pickers.
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Advanced
Spain
75 Minutos continues its exploration of the intense and dedicated lives of Spanish chestnut pickers.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
This episode of 75 Minutos shows us a bit about how the Spanish chestnut farmers sell their product, how it is processed and the multitude of delicious foods and dishes in which chestnuts can be utilized.
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Spain
75 Minutos continues with its first-hand look at how Spanish migrant workers harvest the olive crop.
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Advanced
Spain
75 Minutos continues to explore the sometimes grueling professional and personal lives of the hard-working Spanish migrant farmers responsible for the olive harvest.
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Advanced
Spain
After a long day at work, these Andalusian farmers get to their temporary quarters to rest, eat and have a good time. Let's find out in what conditions they live during the harvesting season.
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Advanced
Spain
This episode of 75 minutos examines the lives of mushroom pickers and how this delicacy gets "From the Field to the Table."
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Advanced
Spain
Spanish mushroom pickers explain about a few of the many different types of mushrooms. While some are edible, sought-after delicacies and others have the medicinal qualities of vasodilators and aphrodisiacs, still others are poisonous when eaten and can even cause death.
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Advanced
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75 minutos continues its interviews with mushroom experts, introducing us to more varieties of mushrooms and seeing, in a restaurant which specializes in mushroom dishes, their transformation "from the field to the table."
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
After learning how the olives are harvested in the fields, the host of 75 minutos visits a plant in Jaen. There, she will witness the whole process that the olives go through to transform into delicious Spanish olive oil.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Antonia, the charming reporter from 75 minutos, takes us on a tour of a factory that processes olives to convert them into liquid gold: Spanish olive oil, one of the fınest ın the world!
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos continues to go behind the scenes of olive oil production: from the factories, to the offices, to oil classes and tastings... We even meet a family whose daily life seems to revolve around olive oil.
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Advanced
Spain
Andalusians use avocados for a variety of purposes from food to candles to beauty treatments. But, how are they grown and sold? 75 minutos takes you behind the scenes.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos continues its behind-the-scenes look at the lives of avocado farmers in Spain.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos takes us inside an avocado mill where we meet the workers and learn how avocados are classified and sold.
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Advanced
Spain
Welcome to one of the most important olive factories in the world and meet one of its chemists and his family.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos continues its behind-the-scenes tour around this Spanish olive factory which prepares olives for export to 72 countries.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
After witnessing all of the hard work that goes into getting foods like mushrooms, chestnuts, avocados and olives "from the field to the table," 75 minutos dedicates its final segment to the workers behind the scenes.
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Intermediate
Spain
Watch as these wealthy folks search for extremely expensive "bargains" in clothes, cars, etc. Everything is relative!
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Intermediate
Spain
"Zoquitos" is a network of local currency in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain with no physical bills or coins. It is based on bartering with the goal of promoting an economy that is more fair and supportive.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos takes a look inside the home of an expatriate couple living in Spain where a large percentage of their belongings were acquired second-hand.
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Intermediate
Spain
Residents of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain continue to explain the nuances of buying and selling goods and services with their local currency, “zoquitos.”
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Residents of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain continue to explain the nuances of exchanging goods and services through a network of "zoquitos," a kind of local currency. While it has not yet happened fully, some of them envision a day in which their community might live without money in the traditional sense.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Is it possible to find signature clothing, by designers, second-hand? Are there bargains for rich people in Marbella? Of course there are!
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
This episode talks about the increasing client base for second-hand stores in Spain and the fact that, while their former clientele was overwhelmingly foreign, Spanish people are increasingly open to the concept.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
When two Spanish women's employment situations change due to unexpected circumstances, they join together to open a new business which, in order to cut costs, they are furnishing and equipping with second-hand goods.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The owner of a recently-established bar talks about how he was able to cut costs by buying a lot of his supplies second-hand.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
75 minutos talks to some Spanish business owners who decided to start their businesses after winding up unemployed. On tighter budgets, they were able to save a lot of money by purchasing many of their supplies second-hand.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
These days, fewer new cars are sold and the second-hand market is growing. Can bargains be found on luxury cars as well?
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Advanced
Spain Andalusia
At the height of the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly fashionable in Andalusia, Spain, to exchange apartments or stores. Learn more about this phenomenon.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
The discussion about the growing trend of apartment-swapping in Spain continues.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Arancha, who works in a second-hand clothing store, shares with us her passion for all things second-hand. Her home and wardrobe are full of treasures she has found in specialty stores.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
In addition to saving people a lot of money, buying clothing second-hand has become increasingly fashionable. From ski clothes, to military clothes to vintage and baby fashions, everything can be bought second-hand.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Some "second-hand" clothing is actually not "second-hand" at all- but rather donated with the labels intact out of the goodness of some donors' hearts. Learn about this and other aspects of Spain's thriving second-hand clothing industry.
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Advanced
Spain
75 minutos takes us behind the scenes at a second-hand clothing warehouse.
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Advanced
Spain
While new car sales have gone down in recent times, the same is not true of second-hand automobiles, for which sales continue to increase.
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Advanced
Spain Andalusia
75 minutos continues to explore the nuances of Spain's burgeoning second-hand car market.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Thanks to Spain's second-hand market, many who could not previously afford such luxury items as boats can now have access to them.
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Adv-Intermediate
Spain
This finale to the series reiterates the extent to which "bargains" are a relative concept and can be found even on luxury items in Spain's thriving second-hand market.
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