Harper Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

À lire absolument pour préparer un voyage en Espagne

Recipient said she loved the book and the illustrations.Especially enjoyed being able to wallow in amazing Spanish produce- without any requirement to be in the kitchen, or cooking.

This book is very well produced: typesetting, binding, photo's, all first class. Good format too.However, it is thin on substance and content. The style of writing and the structure make the book rather superficial.It contains hardly any information that is not already available elsewhere.The many narrative and partly autobiographical sections are poorly written. The so called ideas of the author and his private ramblings often get in the way of the content. As regards language and tone, it makes Lonely Planet sound intellectual and academic.The Japan book by the same author is better. This Spanish book might have been produced with too much haste.

Wonderful book. It is a must.Gives a great view of the relation between culture and food, wich is so important to understand a country and we forget sometimes.As a local, I'm so happy to read such realistic things about my city, Barcelona and Catalan culture, and from Galicia, where my mother's family is coming from.

This cookbook was bought as a gift, but I may have snuck inside to take some pics for myself before wrapping it up.