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Title: Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas ISBN: 0-394-51348-7 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: To Spain with Penelope
Comment: I enjoyed this book very much. Ms. Casas gives a brief description of the local food for the different areas of Spain giving some cultural background which explain the diversity of ingredients. I read it in a sitting and as I read I marked recipes I wanted to try. When I finished reading I had quite a lot of marked pages. I love tripe and loved the two recipes given for the dish as they make it in Madrid and in Galicia. It is not only a book to cook by but it helps you to understand Spanish food.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Spanish classic, by fermed
Comment: In 1982 Penelope Casas published the finest book of Spanish cookery ever. It is now in its 11th printing. Although she has written other books on the cuisines of Spain, "The Foods and Wines of Spain" has biblical standing among cooks. For her culinary expertise she has been honored by the government of Spain, but more importantly, she had built a following of gastronomes of all stripes who swear by her recipes. Their authenticity is never in question: she is an indefatigable researcher who goes back to the kitchen and discusses things with the local artists and then includes those recipes and techniques in her book. If a few of the dishes don't taste exactly as they did in Spain it is because not all the ingredients are available here. Still, Ms. Casas gives advice about reasonable substitutes, and now that serrano ham and some chorizos are allowed to be imported, such substitutions can be kept to a minimum.
The book contains not one but two recipes for garlic soup, simple to make by even beginning cooks, and highly addictive. The "arroz a banda" described is one of the more subtle and satisfying of the rice dishes; and of course there is the paella (about which Ms. Casas has written a separate book). In this volume its recipe appears a bit intimidating, but it is essentially easy to prepare if one does not think too much about it beforehand.
For those cooks who need exact formulas and pharmacy-like precision in their ingredients, this book will please them. For those who are relativists with active imaginations, the book will also satisfy by pointing them in the right direction: pork chops with prunes, duck with olives in sherry sauce, baked porgy and peppers with brandy, chicken with figs. Yum.
Rating: 2
Summary: It might be realistic...
Comment: ...but all the recipes come out very bland. I've tried a few of them and there's really nothing that stands out. I'll try a few more before I sell this one. It's a shame, because the book is put together rather well and is easy to follow.
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Title: Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain by Penelope Casas ISBN: 0394742354 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Paella!: Spectacular Rice Dishes from Spain by Penelope Casas ISBN: 0805056238 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Delicioso!: The Regional Cooking of Spain by Penelope Casas ISBN: 0679430555 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: My Kitchen in Spain: 225 Authentic Regional Recipes by Janet Mendel ISBN: 0060195266 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Catalan Cuisine: Europe's Last Great Culinary Secret by Colman Andrews ISBN: 1558321543 Publisher: Harvard Common Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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