Summer Passport stop #5: SPAIN!When you think of Spain does your tummy start rumbling? Well I know mine does! This wonderful book with quench your culinary and cultural appetite! Spain: A Culinary Road Trip, follows foodies Mario Batali and Mark Bittman, as well as actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Claudia Bassols as they travel through Spain looking for the best of true Spanish regional cuisine, art, history, and culture.Full of gorgeous pictures and mouth-watering recipes. I learned alot from the review by Ed Uyeshima and wish that I had read it before I read the book--nicely done! ANd I wish I was slow cooking the chicken that I have for dinner tonight in the slow-roasted recipe manner on p 245...tho' I think high heat roasting with the 40 cloves of garlic will also be good, this sounds less high key and I am home all day...so, not knowing that this was a book from a PBS series which travels, the thing I found most irritating about this cookbook was the chattiness in it--which may in fact be what attracts people who have seen the series, and are looking for a book that will capture it for them...I wished it had alot more recipes (the recipes are great, and the pictures give you a great idea of what they are supposed to look like, but the Barcelona to Girona section had only one of the numerous fabulous regional dishes that we had there, and I wish they had at least covered a few of the regions famous ones...and skipped some of the dialogues between Mario and Gwyneth and whatever chef they were traveling with at the time. But maybe I'll try to catch the series and revisit the book.
What do You think about Spain...A Culinary Road Trip (2008)?
I'm a sucker for pretty pictures, easy recipes and spain. This book has it all. Booyah.
—Liviafreire
Awesome! I loved it. I now want to go to Spain soon and eat eat eat!!
—Jordyn
Expected more, to much jet set and to little Spanish cooking.
—Kate
