The gastronomical richness of this area is quite important, not only special meals prepared on a special occasion to celebrate something , but also in every day meals, where imagination and the artisan patient work make cheap and delicious foods.

    Among the varied products in Tierra de Campos, we should start talking about bread. This has been a basic food and an important element in the economy of this land, producing fights and wars to obtain the best lands to produce cereals. Bread is made with "tremés" or "candeal" wheat, producing a kind of bread which is so much appreciated because of its taste and whiteness, whose fame has surpassed the frontiers of this land.

    Other products made in Tierra de Campos are its famous cheeses, made with sheeps milk. We can find them in most villages.Nowadays they are made in small factories but following old way traditions, although there were made at home by those who had sheeps because it was the only way to commercialize the milk produced by sheeps.

    Stew is another typical meal. It was eaten almost everyday not long ago.A cooking-pot is placed over the fire and it is left there bubbling slowly. Garlic soup has similar importance : water, salt, bread, garlic and sometimes bacon.

    We should not forget meat, being important young lamb and old lamb ones which are more appreciated in this land because of grass lands and breed selection. Roasted lamb is a typical and famous food in Tierra de Campos. We also have to talk about a kind of food which is being recovered lately and which was a symbol of richness in this area, we are talking about pigeons or young pigeons food.

    Pig killing is another part of the gastronomical and craftmanship culture in this area. In winter, people kill pigs in all villages. This is made in a festive way because it is an occasion to be all the family and all the neigbours together round work to taste several typical products as crackling ,and slices of bacon,etc.

    Talking about delicatessen, we should not forget little buns, "orejuelas",pork cakes, olive oil cakes, the famous "Marinas" from Medina de Rioseco pine-nut cakes, "rosquillas de palo"(tough ring-shaped pastries) which are very famous in all villages and the young boys asked for them knocking on doors long ago the first Monday after Easter Sunday.They are also famous burnt almonds covered with candy,called "almendras garrapiñadas", from Villafrechós, etc.