Product Description

Spain's greatest culinary tradition, tapas, is in the grip of a renaissance. Delicious dishes are being created by a new generation of chefs working in ultra modern restaurants, as well as by experienced tapas cooks in back street bars. Like the old tapas favourites, these new dishes display a rich variety of intense flavours and textures. In these recipes, some of Spain's most creative chefs present their favourite tapas, from their own versions of traditional favourites such as, "tortilla and calamari in a red wine stew", to modern creations such as "chicken in a honey sauce and a crisp frisee salad with a warmed sherry and garlic dressing." Some dishes fuse traditional Spanish cuisine with international influences, while others are earthy, fresh and indisputably Spanish. But all of these tapas are easy to make, combining minimal preparation with a variety of tastes and textures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223776 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Fiona Dunlop regularly contributes to The Observer, Independent, Red, Homes and Gardens and a variety of European magazines. In New Tapas she brings together 26 top Spanish chefs

Customer Reviews

Tastiest Tapas - totally inspiring!
This is now one of my favourite cookbooks. Dinner party faves so far are the Leeks with a summer vegetable vinaigrette (I used baby leeks), Chickpeas in black pudding with garlic and parsley, Gazpacho with aged sherry vinegar and the Mushroom, prawn and cheese tartlets.
There are lots of other dishes that I will be trying in the near future. I would recommend this book to any keen cook who is happy to potter in the kitchen as Tapas is labour intensive but totally enjoyable.

interesting and food for thought
I own a tapas bar, and am always looking for inspiration for new dishes for my menu. This was more of a culinary travel guide rather than your usual recipe book. However, although I did not use any of the recipes included from individual bars, it gave me ideas for creating my own recipes. An interesting read .

New Tapas
This is also one of my favourite recipe books. The recipes seem abit overwheming at first but the more I look at it, the more I discover ones to make! My favourites are lentil and chorizo stew and spinach and chickpeas. The good thing about the recipes is that although they say 'for 4 tapas' they create a large amount of food (the stew does 4-5 main meal portions and the prawn and apinach loaf was a big loaf tin's worth.(not eating it again for a while)) There are good recipes for bbqs and outdoor summer eating, as well as the hearty winter fare! There's also the sense that the next time you're in spain you can check out the tapas bars without them being out of your league!!! I've bought my salt cod for the salt cod and spinach pealla and plan to make honey marinaded chicken really soon! It's a fantastic book and really 'real'.