Classic Spanish Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Spanish kitchen

by Elisabeth Luard

106 diverse recipes come together in this collection of classic Spanish recipes for novice and expert cooks alike. Using only the freshest ingredients, the author explores the techniques necessary for handling all kinds of traditional Spanish dishes. An extensive variety of tapas recipes encourage the reader to experiment with typically Spanish produce ? including cooking confidently with peppery chorizo, fresh seafood, and flavouring with saffron, garlic, and of course sherry ? Spain's most famous wine. The simplicity with which an impressive banquet of tapas dishes can be prepared is outstanding and the step by step recipes are easy to follow, yet give fantastic results. Learn how to cook a distinctive and perfect paella, delicious gazpacho, or hearty and traditional fish and meat stews without the fuss that so often surrounds Mediterranean cooking. The author has lovingly pieced together recipes from every region of Spain, to give an insightful and enticing overview of one country

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

336 pages, Hardcover

First published April 8, 2006

About the author

Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster who often illustrates her own work. Her most recent cookbook, A Cook's Year in a Welsh Kitchen with photography by Clare Richardson, was published by Bloomsbury in 2010. Previous books include European Peasant Cookery (US The Old World Kitchen), Festival Food and Tapas, all of which are in print with Grub Street. Others include Classic Spanish and Soups (Octopus), The Latin American Kitchen, The Food of Spain and Portugal and Food Adventures: Introducing your Child to Flavours around the World (Kyle Cathie) - written with daughter-in-law Frances Boswell, and Truffles (Frances Lincoln). She is currently Trustee Director of The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, contributes a monthly column to Richard Ingrams The Oldie Magazine, and is a member of the team at online culinary magazine Zester Daily. She has published 2 novels, one of which, Emerald, won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award. Her work as a journalist appears regularly in The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, Country Living, Cambria Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle and the TLS.

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