Cooking from the Heart of Spain: Food of La Mancha

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  • Author: Janet Mendel
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln
  • Catalogue: 165166
  • Size: 19x23 cm
In Cooking from the Heart of Spain: Food of La Mancha, André Simon Award winner Janet Mendel offers up nearly two hundred recipes for fresh rustic dishes, including tapas, soups, salads, meat and fish and desserts from this incredible Spanish region.

The traditional foods of La Mancha tell stories all their own. Some of Spain's most outstanding products come from this region, including Manchego cheese, saffron, Serrano ham, fine wines and flavourful olive oils. The cooking of La Mancha can be as simple as pisto, a medley of summer vegetables sautéed in olive oil, or as complex as the layered flavours of lamb stuffed with spinach and pine nuts. It's as subtle as saffron ice cream and as robust as peasant garlic soup.

Janet Mendel, an American-born journalist who has lived in Andalusia for more than 30 years, presents here a traditional cookery book with over two hundred recipes divided according to courses. Cooking from the Heart of Spain is the first English cookbook to focus specifically on the foods of this distinctive region.

“I have lived in Spain for many years and love its food from the inside and out. La Mancha, for me, is the ‘real’ Spain - not Andalucia, not Catalonia, not the Basque country, not Galicia nor Asturias. This is Spanish cooking true to its roots and enticing in its future. The heart of Spain.” - Janet Mendel