I sadly don’t have anything personal to add on the specific topic of Basque cuisine, but I want to encourage any Indo-European language speaker who even marginally enjoys language to read up on the situation of Basque language (Euskara). It is a language isolate, and the only extant language in mainland Europe that does not descend from Proto-Indo-European. The Basque language survived in the sliver of land at the fringes of the Roman and Moorish conquests.

As a non basque Spaniard, I consider Euskara a living treasure we have a huge collective responsibility in keeping alive, and I hope any political turmoils are never (again) an obstacle against this task.

> only extant language in mainland Europe

Small correction: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian and the Sámi languages of the very North are also not Indo-European, but Uralic languages. Not isolates though.

It's not correct that Basque is the only non-Indo-European language in Europe; this is also true of Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, and some other minority languages in the far north of Scandinavia. However, it has been hypothesized that Basque is the only language in Europe that is pre-Indo-European, having existed there before Indo-European languages spread to that area (although it's hard to know this for sure). Either way, you're right that it's a fascinating language!