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The Cuisines of Spain : Exploring Regional Home Cooking Barrenechea, Teresa
The Cuisines of Spain : Exploring Regional Home Cooking
A good book for people who like to read about food with the first two chapters discussing the foods of Spanish regions and the ingredients of the Spanish pantry. The recipes that follow are divided into chapters by course, beginning with Tapas. All recipes have an introductory paragraph or two talking about the dish and many are illustrated with full page photographs. A hefty and beautiful book.
q TX723.5.S7 B374 2005
Tapas: the Little Dishes of Spain Casas, Penelope
Tapas: the Little Dishes of Spain
There is now an updated version of Penelope Casas' 1985 book on Spanish appetizers. Casas has written numerous books on the foods of Spain.
The Food of Northern Spain Chandler, Jenny.
The Food of Northern Spain: Recipes from the Gastronomic Heartland of Spain
Covering Spain north of the Ebro and Duero Rivers, Jenny Chandler offers great background material on the food of each of the provinces of this region.
q TX723.5.S7 C4943 2005x
The Spanish kitchen Hyman, Clarissa
The Spanish Kitchen: Regional Ingredients, Recipes and Stories from Spain
Clarissa Hyman takes a signature ingredient from each region of Spain, talks about it and then offers a few recipes highlighting it. Not a comprehensive collection of Spanish recipes but very interesting and informative.
TX723.5.S7 H96 2005x
The Food of Spain & Portugal: a Regional Celebration Luard, Elisabeth
The Food of Spain & Portugal: a Regional Celebration
TX723.5.S7 L8293 2005x
Cooking from the Heart of Spain Mendel, Janet
Cooking from the Heart of Spain: Food of La Mancha
La Mancha was the home of Don Quixote and this recipe book includes a recipe for Don Quixote's Friday Lentils and for Cañamones (toasted nuts and seeds). Janet Mendel has lived in Spain for 40 years and gives interesting commentary to the recipes, some of which she has pulled from historic Spanish cookbooks.
TX723.5.S7 M443 2006
1080 Recipes Ortega, Simone
1080 Recipes
This is a new English edition of a cookbook, first published in 1972, that has seen 30 editions in Spain. It is the cookbook that 3 generations of Spaniards have learned to cook from.
The Spanish kitchen Von Bremzen, Anya
The New Spanish Table
"New" as in new cuisine, this cookbook celebrates up-and-coming chefs and contemporary Spanish cuisine. Fortunately for the reader, it is not a pretentious glossy book but an informal fun cookbook with lots of sidebars and asides.
TX723.5.S7 V66 2005

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Websites

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Pittsburgh Region

Sites in English

  • Cheese from Spain
    http://www.cheesefromspain.com/
    This website from the Trade Commission of Spain in New York describes the major cheeses of Spain.
  • Epicurious: La Rioja: Come for the Wine, Stay for the Food
    An article about locations in La Rioja by George Semler.
  • Epicurious: Spanish Recipes
    Browse through 256 recipes arranged by course and ingredient from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines.
  • Food & Wine: Spain's Great Escapes
    http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/spains-great-escapes
    Three short gastronomic excursions: from Madrid, from Seville and from Barcelona. Each includes visits to cultural destinations like the Dalí museum, gorgeous drives, overnight stays in paradors (government-owned hotels) and stops at top wineries.
  • Spain: Gastronomy
    This website from the official tourism site of Spain, takes you on a tour of the different gastronomic regions of Spain.
  • MarketUno
    http://www.marketuno.com/
    Free resource for foreign buyers of Spanish food products. Includes detailed product info, suppliers´ lists, and food trade fair information. Although this is a website for importers, they have an Interactive Spanish Food Map (Flash) with information about the food specialities of each region.
  • Sally's Place: Focus on Ethnic Cuisine: Spain
    http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/spain.htm
    General information on Spanish food and cooking with references by Lou Seibert Pappas.
  • Soft Guide Madrid: Eating Out Dictionary
    http://www.softdoc.es/madrid_guide/eatingout/food_dictionary.html
    Spanish food terms and their English equivalents.
  • The Spanish Table
    http://www.spanishtable.com/
    An online store offering Spanish and Portuguese cooking equipment and food items.
  • La Tienda Fine Products from Spain
    http://www.tienda.com/
    This is an online store of Spanish food products that also offers information about Spanish food and culture and a collection of recipes and links.
  • Wines from Spain
    http://www.winesfromspain.com/
    A website to inform consumers about Spanish wine, from the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior, ICEX). You can find a wine or winery by clicking on the map or searching.

General Spanish Sites

There are a large number of food and recipe sites in Spain but most are in Spanish.

  • Consumer.es EROSKI: Alimentacion
    http://www.consumer.es/alimentacion/
    This online consumer magazine by the Eroski Foundation offers articles about food and nutrition as well as recipes. In Spanish. Eroski is a chain of supermarkets.
  • A Fuego Lento
    http://www.afuegolento.com/
    A professionally developed online cooking magazine from Spain in Spanish. Includes recipes (searchable), a glossary of cooking terms (Spanish to Spanish but great if you are trying to read a Spanish cookbook), this week's recipe's from Koldo Royo's television show on the cooking channel.
  • Hola.com: Gastronomia
    http://www.hola.com/gastronomia/
    This fashion magazine from Spain offers a gastronomy section with recipes. In Spanish.
  • Pepe Igelsias
    http://www.pepeiglesias.net/
    Un portal gastronómico. A gastronomic portal in Spanish by a Spanish author and journalist.
  • Recetas.net
    http://www.recetas.net/
    Recipes of all kinds, but the majority are Spanish. By MediaLabs of Madrid. In Spanish.

Basque Country

Catalonia

  • Catacurian
    http://www.catacurian.com/
    Culinary vacation in Catalonia, Spain. Their website (in English) offers information on Catalonian cuisine.
  • Cuines
    http://www.tvcatalunya.com/cuines/
    A site in Catalan from the Catalan TV station with weekly collections of recipes from restaurants. A good way to practice your Catalan! (Not impossible if you know Spanish and French...) There are thumbnail photos of the dishes in the top lefthand corner.
  • Food & Wine: The Sparkle of Spain
    "Just west of Barcelona, in Spain's Catalonia, three generations of the winemaking Huguet family gather to toast the New Year, sharing a few favorite dishes as well as a few glasses of their Champagne-class cava." A January 1999 article by Brian St. Pierre.

Galicia

  • Empanada Gallega
    http://empanadagallega.fiestras.com/
    Todo sobre la empanada y la cocina gallega. Not just empanadas and its history but information in Spanish about Galician specialties.
  • Pontevedra Gastronomy
    This is a very nice site in Spanish from the Rías Baixas Tourist Board of the Province of Pontevedra in Galicia. The site has a lot of information about the country, as well as recipes, the majority for seafood, the Galician specialty. They have a version in English.

La Rioja

Southern Spain

  • Gastronomía y Cocina Gaditana
    http://www.cocinagaditana.com/
    Food and Cooking from Cádiz
    From the southern most province of Spain, this site by Carlos Spínola Bruzón offers traditional food from Cádiz, influenced by Phoenician, Roman, Arabic, and New World civilizations. It offers 125 recipes. In Spanish.
  • grupo gastronómico gaditano
    http://grupogastronomicogaditano.com/
    A group interested in the cooking of Cadiz that has put many of its recipes online. In Spanish.

Valencia

  • Orchata Daniel
    http://www.horchateria-daniel.es/
    A site describing the cultivation of chufa and the production of horchata at this horchateria in Valencia. Chufa is a root (Cyperus Esculentus) from which the drink horchata is made in Spain. Called tiger nut and known as nut sedge or nut grass in the US. In Spanish.

Portugal

Although not part of Spain, Portugal is very close.