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Basque Cookbook: Traditional Cooking Made Easy, Quick and Delicious with Authentic Basque Recipes
Basque Cookbook.
Traditional Cooking Made Easy, Quick and Delicious with Authentic Basque Recipes.
Enjoy!
Traditional Cooking Made Easy, Quick and Delicious with Authentic Basque Recipes.
Enjoy!
429 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2023
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October 6, 2023
I bought this book as part of my "travel research" for a planned trip in the spring. I hope to backpack another (my fifth); this time I plan to walk the Norte (through Basque and Austurias) and then take the Primitivo variant through Galicia to Santiago.
I like to do a bit of "research" before I go by reading, not just ordinary travel guides, but also books about the architecture, wine, and food of the areas I will be visiting. Then I dragoon family and friends into wine tasting dinner parties to "help me with my travel research" by sampling the dishes I've read about.
This is a collection of delightful recipes, but not very well organized; this book has about 300 recepes, all reasonably well written and organized within each recipe.
But the collection is organized pretty randomly. There are several recipes which are redundant to one another. That's fine. There is often more than one way to make a particular dish. But they are located in widely scattered areas. It's kind of as if someone's (quite good) recipe cards had been shuffled, and then translated in the order happenstance dictated.
The recipes have been translated (I assume from Spanish); and it's kind of fun to read the sometimes non-idiomatic English translation word choices. In this book first you "must" do this and then one "must" do that.... Or one is told to "cut" something when it is clearly meant to chop or mince or slice. These do not interfere with the comprehensiveness of the text; if anything they add an amusing element to reading.
All of these are just little pecadillos which any experienced cook is likely to read through and understand and only find a bit amusing. The recipes are good to excellent and the selection seems to be both extensive and quite comprehensive.
Well worth the (very low) price.
I like to do a bit of "research" before I go by reading, not just ordinary travel guides, but also books about the architecture, wine, and food of the areas I will be visiting. Then I dragoon family and friends into wine tasting dinner parties to "help me with my travel research" by sampling the dishes I've read about.
This is a collection of delightful recipes, but not very well organized; this book has about 300 recepes, all reasonably well written and organized within each recipe.
But the collection is organized pretty randomly. There are several recipes which are redundant to one another. That's fine. There is often more than one way to make a particular dish. But they are located in widely scattered areas. It's kind of as if someone's (quite good) recipe cards had been shuffled, and then translated in the order happenstance dictated.
The recipes have been translated (I assume from Spanish); and it's kind of fun to read the sometimes non-idiomatic English translation word choices. In this book first you "must" do this and then one "must" do that.... Or one is told to "cut" something when it is clearly meant to chop or mince or slice. These do not interfere with the comprehensiveness of the text; if anything they add an amusing element to reading.
All of these are just little pecadillos which any experienced cook is likely to read through and understand and only find a bit amusing. The recipes are good to excellent and the selection seems to be both extensive and quite comprehensive.
Well worth the (very low) price.
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