THE HILTON HOTELS

Hilton Hotels were founded in 1919 by C.H. in Texas. Between the years 1938-1945 "The Hilton" became the first coast-to-coast hotel chain in the US and the major national force in the hospitality industry.

In 1945 Hilton had the largest hotel in the world. A few years, the first Hilton Hotels was opened in Europe "The Castellana Hilton" in Madrid.

When Conrad H. died, his son was named charman of the board. In 1982, "Las Vegas Hilton" became the them-largest hotel in the world, with 3,174 guestrooms.
In 1995 Hilton introduced the hotel chain into cyberspace by landing its Internet site at http://www.hilton.com/

Now we are going to see the main brands of this famous hotel chain. "The Hilton family" hotel chain has 12 different branch worldwide.

Hilton is one of the leading global hospitality companies, with nearly 2,800 hotels and 485,000 rooms. It employs 150,000 people in more than 80 countries.
The status of the company is reflected on the revenue of 2005: that's abaut 4bn USD!!!!

Crème caramel

Ingredients for 4 people:
. 4 eggs
. half a litre of milk
. 200 g. of sugar
. half a cinnamon stick.
. lemon rind.

This is a very easy and traditional recipe. You can change any ingredient if you want to give it a different flavour.

First of all, you have to do the caramel, so put some spoons of sugar in a frying pan or in a saucepan and heat it until it turns brown and liquid, but don't forget to stir it all the time. Be careful when you heat it, because it can be burnt if you heat it too much. When it is brown and liquid, but not burnt, put it into different ramekins, moving each of them while you are dropping the caramel so that each ramekin can have the bottom covered with the caramel. Let them cool off until the caramel turns solid again.

After that, you can prepare the custard. First, preheat the oven to 180°C and then pour the milk in a saucepan and add the cinnamon stick and the lemon rind and bring it to the boil.

While the milk with the cinnamon and the lemon rind is heating you can put the eggs in a bowl and whisk them until they are well-blended. Just after that you can add the sugar the the eggs and go on whisking until they are very uniform.

When the milk boils, turn off the cooker and remove the cinnamon and the lemon rind and add the milk to the eggs and the sugar. Mix it well with a whisk or a mixer and when everything is well mixed, pour the custard into the caramel-lined ramekins.

Take a deep baking dish and fill it with water to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins and cover the dish with foil. Bake them until just set, 25 to 50 min. Remember to start checking early; baking time will depend on the thickness and depth of your ramekins and baking dish. Carefully remove the baking dish from the oven and let the ramekins cool in the water bath. Remove from the water and cover them with plastic wrap and refrigerate them at least 2 hours or up to 2 days.

Run a thin knife around the edge of the custard and invert onto a dessert plate, scraping any caramel from the ramekin onto the custard.

That's all. As you can see it's very easy and delicious.

Please, try to explain other recipes, something easy, not very complicated.

See you!!

About Patzcuaro

Paztcuaro it´s a colonial village in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. You can enjoy there the "Purépecha" culture, even it´s very touristic now.

One of the most important days in Patzcuaro it´s November 2 , called "Día de Muertos". At night, people go to cemetery, and take there some food and drink wich the dead people who they want to visit liked to eat and drink. They also decorate graves with orange flowers called "Zempazuchil" and candles. If the late person liked music, they take "Mariachi" to the party. It´s quite impresive!!

In Patzcuaro you can find beautiful handcrafts and great food!

Shellfish

Hi!

I've just found an article in The Times about the Galician goose barnacles and the way they are caught.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/food_and_travel/article5370129.ece

I think it could be very interesting to read what the an English newspaper tells us about this shellfish. Do you agree with it's said in the article?

Tell me your opinion.

See you!

Happy Christmas!

Hi!

Do you like Christmas? If so, tell us why? and if you don't like it, please, tell us why too.

Do you know any Christmas songs? Here is one of the most famous songs with the lyrics. It could be funny if you learn it and try to sing it with your family.


The Christmas song I like most is this one:


Do you know it?
What do you like doing at Christmas? I like travelling to other countries on New Year's eve, however I can do it this year. So ,tell us what are you going to do?

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year, too!!

See you in January!

Hi everyone!!!

I`m Paloma, i`m going to try to writte in this blog, i think it´s a good chance to practicing, but there´s a long time since I don´t write English, so Im sorry for the mistakes...

I´ll talk about one of my passions, Mexico. I was living there for a year, and maybe it could be interesting to show something about its culture, good things and also bad things of this wonderfull, and colourfull country, some advices to travel there, and of course it would be nice if you have some questions or things to discuss.

If i had to describe Mexico with just one word, i´m sure it is Colour, everything is Colour there, people, food, landscapes, music...

Why don´t start with tipically topics?People don´t wear a big roun hat, and they aren´t so lazy as they seem. They don´t say "andele ándele" every time, and yes! they use belt, not a rope like cantinflas...And you know what? have you ever seen these round hats, which are sold in chinese shops or markets? These with those little white balls around? I had never see one of those there, they never were mexicans!!

Till next day!

Photo from Joel Bucio

I can't study french

This year I have to choose the second language. I had thinking a lot of time in it, and finally I decided to choose French.
My God¡¡¡ I didn't know what I was doing¡¡¡
I have to say that I had never studied french before, and obviously I didn't think that probably you had to have previous knowledges. So, you can see now I feel like a mouse in a mousetrap.

Therefore in this moment I think that english language it's the most easy language in the world¡¡¡¡
I can't pronounce a word in french without my english pronunciation, I can't understand the articles, the plurals, ... I can't to stop to think in english.

And probably I can see my summer in a french academy trying to get some idea of this brother language and then can pass the exam...in September.

Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that follows the principles of sustainability.

Sustainable tourism in its purest sense, is an industry committed to making a low impact on the natural environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for locals.^[1]

Global economists forecast continuing international tourism growth, ranging between three and six percent annually, depending on the location. As one of the world's largest and fastest growing industries, this continuous growth will place great stress on remaining biologically diverse habitats and indigenous cultures, which are often used to support mass tourism. Tourists who promote sustainable tourism are sensitive to these dangers and seek to protect tourist destinations, and to protect tourism as an industry. Sustainable tourists can reduce the impact of tourism in many ways, including:

• informing themselves of the culture, politics, and economy of the communities visited
• anticipating and respecting local cultures' expectations and assumptions
• contributing to intercultural understanding and tolerance
• supporting the integrity of local cultures by favoring businesses which conserve cultural heritage and traditional values
• supporting local economies by purchasing local goods and participating with small, local businesses
• conserving resources by seeking out businesses that are environmentally conscious, and by using the least possible amount of non-renewable resources

What do you think about sustainable tourism? Do you agree with this article or do you think it's an exagge ratio n? Do you think "ecotourism" and "adventure travel" is the same? Do you any cases of greenwashing? Please tell us about it or write your own post about this theme.