Menorca is the Balearic island where Catalan is most widely spoken in the streets and where the most families choose it as the primary language of instruction in schools, but it is also where it is now most threatened by the administration. The PP's strategic alliance with representatives expelled from Vox and the appointment of the former director of Sa Fundació, the organization that denies the unity of the language, as Minister of Culture have provoked a gradual struggle against standard Catalan. This is a decision that no one in Menorca had ever questioned, not even the PP.

IB-Salut, the public health service of the Balearic Islands, has refused to reinstate Dr. Nadiya Popel, who worked in the Emergency Department of the Mateu Orfila Hospital in Mahón until she was expelled in September 2023. She will now serve two years. The news was announced on Menorca Diary.

Now, I wouldn't want to start a war. There's no need to start the bloody battle of "which is the best ensaimada in Menorca." The supposedly "best" will always be a subjective title. So what I intend today is simply to recommend a place where they make it very, very (three very, very good ones, eh?). I'll put it another way. I wouldn't forgive myself for going to Menorca and not stopping in Mercadal to go to Sugar Case to eat a good ensaimada. I'm already planning it: I'd be covered in powdered sugar, and I wouldn't care. And obviously, I'd reach the pinnacle of happiness by sucking the remaining sugar off my fingers.

New photos have emerged showing Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas spending time together. After being spotted in London's Soho for Valentine's Day on February 14, the actors—aged 63 and 37, respectively—have been spotted again on a summer getaway. The magazine Hello! published some images this Wednesday in which they are seen sailing on a boat in the surroundings of Ciutadella (Menorca), which according to the magazine reinforces the theory of a possible relationship beyond friendship and work.

Mayonnaise, the sauce resulting from emulsifying olive oil with egg yolk, salt, and a squeeze of lemon, is of Menorcan origin, not French. Research, driven by chef and doctor Pep Pelfort since 2022, suggests that the Duke of Richelieu, when he conquered the island of Menorca in 1756, knew it and popularized it in his country many years later. Since until now, no document existed on the island that recorded the sauce described step by step before the French had described it, the authorship was attributed to France. Furthermore, in France, when it had been written down, the recipe had been passed down as mayonnaise and mayonnaise, a fact that researchers argue is a typographical error: the backwards y is an h, which was the letter that the population of Mahón had in ancient times. For years, it was useless to formulate hypotheses about the name of the sauce, which clearly referred to the population of Mahón. Written documentation was the most important, and on the island there was none that described its preparation. Everything changed when, in a private library on the island, researcher Pep Pelfort found the Manuscript by Joana Caules, dating from 1750, in which the recipe is described in detail under the title "to make a raw fish sauce." What's new now is that the book has just been published in the 7 Puertas collection of historical Catalan cookbooks, and has become the 10th volume of the enormous work begun by the great Barcelona restaurant located on Passeig de Isabel II.

UNESCO has recently declared that Talayotic Menorca is World Heritage due to the density of deposits (1,586) in a few square kilometers (700). Now, there is still another statement that the island can also make openly, which is the good cuisine that can be enjoyed in restaurants (from popular levels to haute cuisine) and especially in homes, a cuisine that preserves a traditional recipe book. , both salty and sweet, with tools that are inherited from generation to generation.

New "mass outbreak" following an end-of-year trip. Up to 24 students from a number of schools in Barcelona have been infected with coronavirus on an end-of-year trip to Menorca from 12th to 18th June, and 40 more are awaiting results. The Department of Health has said it will not disclose the names of the affected schools because the centres have no connection with the organisation of travel, organised by the students themselves independently by creating Whatsapp groups and contacting travel agencies specialising in this type of event.