Product Description

Eating in Spain is either a family meal, which goes on late into the night, or a morsel of tapas shared in a bar with friends. With these delicious and authentic recipes you can recreate the essence of the Mediterranean lifestyle: fresh produce, a sense of community and sharing, and a love of food and life. Spanish food is highly regional, so there are dishes here from every area, with a special concentration on Paella, the country's signature dish. Capture the flavours of Spain and let "Spanish Bar and Restaurant Cooking" bring a little sunshine to your table.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #337123 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Maria Solis Ballinger is a native of Seville in Spain. She travelled extensively throughput Spain before she married her American husband and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Maria's passion for Spanish cuisine has remained strong and she travels every summer to Spain to visit family and to research dishes to add to her ever-increasing list of recipes. Natalia Solis Ballinger was brought up in Tennessee but grew up with a deep love of her mother's native cuisine and she also returns to Spain every year.

Customer Reviews

Best Paella Book Ever!
This is a superb cookbook with many bewitching ways to create and serve the delectable dish, paella. The authors seem to know more about this dish than any other authorities I have read. And the other sections--soups, desserts, and sangrias--are excellent. All in all, first rate!

Paella, paella, paella
Should be retitled '101 Things to do with Paella'. Well ok, not quite 101 but seems like that after reading it. 15 of the 128 pages are taken up by the introduction and index, only 10 sangria recipes, 21 tapas recipes, 6 dessert recipes and the rest is paella. Paella with currants, chilled paella curry (yuck) vegetable paella, chicken and orange paella, sausage paella, anchovy paella, red paella, green paella etc etc. Could certainly have done with some more variety!

Spanish bar & restaurant cooking
As the title suggests this book has a good selection of Spanish bar and restaurant cooking recipes - many of which are made up from a large assortment of paella variations but rightly so as this is what you get in tapas bars and restaurants.. The author has captured many of the basics and simplicity of some popular Spanish recipes, a good book to have in the kitchen especially for the paella enthusiast