The Idiom Game

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Several years ago, while teaching creative writing for three months in a small village in Spain, I was made to feel welcome by a wonderful group of people who were native to the town. Every Saturday night, more than twenty men and women would arrive at the farmhouse my husband and I were renting, each of them carrying a tray of their favorite foods. There was pa amb oli—bread with olive oil, the signature Catalan appetizer; tombet, a casserole of to...