Claudia Roden's "The Food of Spain": A 192-Page Culinary Journey Through the Cuisine of Spain

AFG: Un libro muy completo. La autora describe platos reales por toda España. Las fotografías acompañan muy bien a las recetas.
El único "inconveniente" el peso del libro, más de 2 kg.

Spain on Sep 16, 2023

SLM: Received with thanks. Great condition better than I expected. Thank you.
Was packaged well but was ripped. No problems anyway, just an FYI.

United Kingdom on Jul 28, 2023

Bredon House: Not just a book of recipes but a bible of Spanish food culture. It is packed with information and descriptions of Spanish regional cuisines, ingredients and cooking. Followed by a generous amount of recipes.

I read it from cover to cover and immediately started again from the beginning.

United Kingdom on May 05, 2023

N Lyons: It’s rare to find a cook book that inspires, is a good read by itself but also has recipes that mere mortals can actually do. The ingredients are generally available without going to specialist retailers. Will explore the author’s other titles now!

United Kingdom on Mar 25, 2023

Alison: So many of the recipes in this book are very simple, but that doesn't mean they're boring. Since this booked arrived, three weeks ago (along with Med, by the same author) most of my meals have been from it. The main, and the veg. No crazy ingredients either. I love it!

United Kingdom on Feb 01, 2023

Gypsy Queen 201: I have almost all of Ms Roden’s cookbooks and marvel at the culinary scholarship that enhances all her works. This HUGE volume is a master work on the historical and regional influences on Spanish cuisine. The book is filled with interesting essays, interviews and recipes from famous Spanish chefs and gorgeous pictures. Her recipes are never overly complex. This is a serious book for serious cooks! Enjoy!

United States on Sep 09, 2022

Pamela A. Boyer: I bought this book for my daughter who teaches Spanish in a High School. During her college years, she took classes one summer in Madrid. I thought that this book was so much more than a cookbook! The pictures and commentary so enriched the recipes. I bought it as a future Christmas present but after receiving it, I couldn't wait that long to give it to her. She is always looking for new material and topics for her classes and I hope that she finds many new ideas!

United States on May 27, 2021

David Gurgel: I bought this book because Judith Jones (Julia Child's editor) recommended it in her own wonderful book, "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food." (Judith has perhaps the most sophisticated palate of any American.)

This will be one of the most attractive cookbooks that you own - looks good among my 55 volumes. If you read it, you will learn much about the geography and history of Spanish food over the past thousand years. If you cook from it, your enjoyment will know no bounds.

This is about the food of European Spain, not the also-wonderful food of Mexico and other Spanish-speaking areas of the New World. For your next block party, do paella, perhaps the best-known example of Spanish communal feasting.

The medium-grain rice, sweet paprika, chorizo sausage, and other important Spanish ingredients can be hard to find. Use Amazon gourmet foods to find these items until you learn the substitutions available at your supermarket.

There are important French influences in Spanish cooking but less to fear. Eating is celebrated in Spanish cooking more than culinary arts - you can do it!

United States on Jul 10, 2011

James Ellsworth: Claudia Roden's breakthrough book, 'A Book of Middle Eastern Food' was not only a landmark work on one of my favorite cuisines, it was also a wonderful reminiscence of Roden's family history as Sephardic Jews who settled in Egypt. For Sephardic, read 'Spanish' and her credibility as a writer on this Mediterranean cuisine becomes clear. The first 120 plus pages contain a region-by-region overview of Spain's multi-ethnic food culture, ranging from signature agricultural products to 'bred in the bone' dishes. I very much agree with previous reviewers that the recipes she has selected accord well with what I have eaten and enjoyed during my travels in Spain. I also feel that this is the best overall book for a Spanish family (speaking English fluently) to select for their own cookbook. The great dishes, the expected dishes are here--from a homemade range of stocks through soups...well, to nuts! Famed convent-based recipes for egg and almond pastry 'bites' are here. We all have had them and we all have wished we 'knew how' to recreate them at home. Now we can! We can also share a thumbnail sketch of each region's history, their hopes for independence or autonomy or their roles in...

United States on Jun 30, 2011

Victoria Allman: Claudia Roden has long been my favorite cookbook author. Her books are well-researched, tasty travelogues, as well as cookbooks. I have thoroughly explored and cooked many of her recipes in Arabesque, The Good Foods of Italy, and The New Book of Middle Eastern Food. Each and every recipe works perfectly and tastes exactly like the dishes of the region tasted when I traveled there.

I was thrilled to see that Roden recently tackled my favorite cuisine, The Foods of Spain. This massive tome of recipes and information is exactly what I would expect from Roden. The research and information is all-encompassing and the recipes thoroughly explore each region of Spain. So far, I have made a dozen recipes from its pages and they all have turned out beautifully and taste just like the Spanish food of my memory.

Cooking from Roden's recipes is the next best thing to traveling to Spain and eating the fabulous food.

This book is a must for any cookbook connoisseur, traveller, or Spanish enthusiast..all of which I am! The Foods of Spain is my new favorite cookbook, hands down...just narrowly beating out Roden's past books.

Victoria Allman
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United States on Jun 19, 2011