The Food of Spain [Hardcover]

One of our foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Italian cooking, Claudia Roden brings her incomparable authenticity, vision, and immense knowledge to bear inThe Food of Spain. The James Beard Award–winning author of the classic cookbooksA Book of Middle Eastern FoodandA Book of Jewish Foodnow graces food lovers with the definitive cookbook on the Spanish cuisine, illustrated with dozens of gorgeous full-color photographs that capture the color and essence of this wonderfully vibrant nation and its diverse people, traditions, and culture.

InThe Food of Spain, Claudia Roden, the James Beard award-winning author of the classicsA Book of Middle Eastern FoodandThe Book of Jewish Food, and one of our foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Italian cooking, brings her incomparable authenticity, vision, and immense knowledge to bear in this cookbook on the cuisines of Spain.

New York Timesbestselling cookbook author Claudia Roden believes that through food a cook can reconstruct an entire world. And in her classicA Book of Middle Eastern Food–eight hundred recipes long, a treasure trove of folk tales, proverbs, stories, poetry, and local history–that's just what she did. Historian and critic Simon Schama has said of her that Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel Proust was a biscuit baker. The Book of Jewish Food, another classic, is equally magnificent in its span, a cookbook that is also a history of Jewish life and settlement, told through the story of what Jews ate, and where, and why, and how they made it.

Now, inThe Food of Spain, Claudia Roden applies that same remarkable insight, scope, and authority to a cuisine marked by its regionalism and suffused with an unusually particular culinary history. In hundreds of exquisite recipes, Roden explores both the little known and the cllãe