Böcker av Maria Jose Sevilla

DISCOVER the cuisine from this FASCINATING region through 75 AUTHENTIC recipes from renowned expert MARIA JOSE SEVILLA.Cocina Vasca explores the cooking and traditions of Spain's most EXCITING food destination.Home to some of the world's MOST CELEBRATED restaurants and chefs, with the city of SAN SEBASTIAN at its heart that proudly has 16 Michelin-starred restaurants.

Discover a fascinating region in Southern Spain that offers the most tantalizing food, through 75 authentic recipes, written with care and attention using the best ingredients.

The first comprehensive history in English of the food of Spain.

Ask any Spaniard where you will find the best food in the country and the answer is invariably the Basque provinces. In this beautifully written book, Maria Jose Sevilla describes the region through the eyes of men and women whose lives embrace every aspect of its cooking and culinary traditions, and records the recipes she has learned from them. The author takes us from market to caserio, or farmstead, and shows how the strength of Basque cuisine comes from the quality and range of local produce: superb fish from the Cantabrian coast, cheeses and wild mushrooms from the mountains, and vegetables and fruit-including apples for cider-making-from the caserios of the valleys. Through her portraits of a fisherman, a craftsman of wooden cheese-making utensils, a wine producer, and a young city housewife, the author shows the historical influences and fierce regional pride behind this distinctive culinary repertoire. Finally, three professional chefs take us into their kitchens, and show us how their superb cooking is based on rich popular traditions. More than eighty authentic recipes punctuate evocative descriptions of cultural and culinary traditions, making this an ideal book for the inquisitive traveler who enjoys good food.