Salmon with Clams

Spanish restaurants don’t normally get going for dinner much before nine o’clock, often nearer ten. But on this day in my chum Moncho’s restaurant, Casa Vilas in Santiago, there was unprecedented activity well before. The President of Galicia, Señor Fraga Iribarne, was coming to dinner and I was to cook for him.

The place was throbbing with security men, policemen, journalists, photographers, Press agents, public relations people, Tourist Board officials and film crews, including ou