a la Vizcaina which also means Biscayne style describes a dish cooked in Salsa Vizcaina, a dried-pepper sauce. The dried peppers called Choriceros are so important in the production of Chorizos. They are harvested at the end of summer when they are already ripe and hung from the facades of farmhouses to dry. The areas around Gernika is famous for these sweet and delicate peppers. When a dish is prepared with this full-flavored pepper sauce, it is invariably called "Biscayne-style” (a la Vizcaína). There are a number of such dishes in Spain, like Bacalao a la Vizcaina (cod prepared Biscayne style), Paella a la Vizcaina, Callos a la Viscaina, Pollo a la Viscaina, among others

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