Lamb and bacon with blue cheese sauce

Cordero con panceta y salsa de queso azul

Basque are known all around the World as excellent fishermen, but in USA there were so exclusively identified with just one occupation: Basques = sheepherding. Thousands of the shaggy creatures have been inhabiting the Basque meadows in the hinterland for centuries. The Basque sheepherding story of the American West goes to the California Gold Rush that brought a sustained number of Basques to the American West. Most "49ers" did not find their gold and had to turn to an alternative plan, and thus some Basques went into ranching. By the 1870s Basque sheep outfits had expanded throughout the high desert country of the American West.
By Tapas Together Edinburgh