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Lonely Planet World Food: Spain
by: Richard Sterling, Alison Jones

Used Price: £8.00

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781864500257
ISBN: 1864500255
Label: Lonely Planet Publications
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: March 01, 2000
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Studio: Lonely Planet Publications
Sales Rank: 306025

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Spain has a more cosmopolitan culinary ancestry than any other country in Europe. The Romans brought olive oil, the Moors brought rice and aubergines, and returning conquistadors from the Americas brought chocolate. In this entertaining and informative guide, Sterling explains how this mouth-watering mixture came about, and how best to indulge in it.

Spanish cuisine is straightforward--a Spanish proverb says that "It should taste of what it is"--but always interesting. As well as the culinary "trinity" of bread, oil and wine, there are irresistible hams, fish and seafood, and wonderful red wine. There are also less appetising dishes, such as bull's testicles and goat's brains, but even these are integral to Spain's culinary identity.

In addition to its useful tips on where to eat and shop, and language section, Lonely Planet World Food: Spain is full of insights into Spain and Spanish cooking, from an account of the process of curing ham or distilling olive oil, to Sterling's observation that pork is so popular in Spain because eating it at the time of the Inquisition allowed converted Jews and Moors to assert their Christianity. On reading this book, you understand how indelibly dependent the Spanish soul is on its culinary heritage, and it becomes impossible to look at tapas in the same way as before: "Tapas are an expression of a people and their unique way of living. They are not things to eat, but a way to eat them." --Toby Green

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The World Food series has to be carefully priced, because although these are attractive books, like nearly all published by Lonely Planet, you don't need them. All guidebooks worth their salt give some space to the food, the markets and restaurants, and so all of these books are effectively an add-on, a luxury - this is unlikely to be the only book you buy.

The Spain book in particular feels slightly unnecessary. Unlike Italy, France or India, where the cuisine is hugely developed and highly complex, the food in Spain seems consciously simple, pared-down. This is reflected in the text, which frequently meanders into long digressions about other things. Worse yet is the persistant impression that "World Food: Spain" has been translated ... Read More:

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