If the origin is uncertain, the story of its popularizer in the Safor region is well documented. Everything points to a couple from Oliva at the beginning of the 20th century: Antonio Mateo, born in Murcia (1896), and his wife Ana María Martínez, born in Oliva. They opened the Bar Nido in Oliva, where Antonio Mateo made the first figatell that is remembered in the region. From there, the recipe passed from butcher to butcher, from bar to bar, ad…
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If the origin is uncertain, the story of its popularizer in the Safor region is well documented. Everything points to a couple from Oliva at the beginning of the 20th century: Antonio Mateo, born in Murcia (1896), and his wife Ana María Martínez, born in Oliva. They opened the Bar Nido in Oliva, where Antonio Mateo made the first figatell that is remembered in the region. From there, the recipe passed from butcher to butcher, from bar to bar, ad…