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El que hem menjat
Un regal per als sentits. Una iniciació magistral en els secrets de la dieta mediterrània, escrita pel gran prosista de les lletres catalanes del segle XX.
Amb una saviesa culinària i literària extraordinàries, Josep Pla desgrana els productes característics de cada estació de l’any i les receptes tradicionals de la cuina d’arrel popular. Però, com diu el propi autor, El que hem menjat “no és un llibre de receptes, sinó una divagació, una digressió amb el pretext de la cuina”. Les reflexions de Pla transcendeixen l’art de la cuina i s’endinsen en els paisatges, els costums i els rituals socials de la gastronomia...
Amb una saviesa culinària i literària extraordinàries, Josep Pla desgrana els productes característics de cada estació de l’any i les receptes tradicionals de la cuina d’arrel popular. Però, com diu el propi autor, El que hem menjat “no és un llibre de receptes, sinó una divagació, una digressió amb el pretext de la cuina”. Les reflexions de Pla transcendeixen l’art de la cuina i s’endinsen en els paisatges, els costums i els rituals socials de la gastronomia...
546 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
About the author
Josep Pla
228 books126 followersJosep Pla i Casadevall (known as José Pla in Spanish) (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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March 23, 2019
Cròniques d’ingredients per menjar, ben escrites, poc corals, com ens té acostumats els lectors de l’Empordà petit.
August 8, 2015
Josep Pla, à travers cet ouvrage, montre l'importance de la mémoire et des souvenirs culinaires en faisant notamment l'éloge d'une cuisine simple (respectueuse des saisons, du temps et des produits...). Une cuisine, qui est bien souvent, la meilleure !
March 20, 2022
Entretingut i divertit. És com escoltar el monòleg del familiar divertit en el sopar de nadal. S'ha de tenir paciència i es repeteix a mesura que va bevent, però val la pena.
August 31, 2026
Un ensayo erudito sobre la cocina en aspectos geograficos, históricos y con interesantes datos de su propia experiencia. Con etimologías sacadas del diccionario Corominas es un recorrido desde el primer ingrediente y el plato más sencillo hasta la alta cocina.
Una delicia.
Una delicia.
December 15, 2022
No es la edición que tengo, pero bueno, ya qué! Por qué no puede uno modificar datos, dudo mucho alguien se encargue de este tipo de libros.
May 7, 2023
3.5
La prosa de Pla me puede convencer de lo que quiera, ojalá llegar a leerle algún día en catalán
La prosa de Pla me puede convencer de lo que quiera, ojalá llegar a leerle algún día en catalán
March 10, 2015
great book about food and traditions!
read this years ago in spain and i hope it's somewhere at my parents' house.
read this years ago in spain and i hope it's somewhere at my parents' house.
December 6, 2016
La Bíblia.
August 31, 2017
Una manera majestuosa de describir el arte de la gastronomía!!!
April 1, 2023
3.5
un genio de la prosa
un genio de la prosa
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