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Taste of Barcelona

The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating
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Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef Ferran Adria of the famed elBulli, soon to be reborn as elBulli1846. Barcelona is a city that attracts millions of visitors in search of art and culinary experiences while cookery apprentices from around the world arrive looking to perfect their skills and expand their gastronomic horizon. The city offers an unequaled combination of restaurants, chefs, restauranteurs, media and local government initiatives to help those who arrive seeking an extraordinary culinary experience. But how has the city established itself as a global culinary referent while becoming synonymous with cutting-edge cuisine? This book narrates Barcelona's urban and culinary development from the Middle Ages to the present, tracing the origins and the growth of the culinary prestige of this part of Catalonia. Barcelona has been a cosmopolitan center since the 1700s because of its location and busy port. The city has always been well supplied with food, and its residents built a strong culinary tradition enlivened by its contact with other cuisines and novel products afforded by its geographic location and the people who migrated to the area. With literature, painting, music and architecture, cooking has been a crucial activity in creating and maintaining a Catalan identity. Past, present and future visitors of the city will find a fascinating history of the unforgettable culinary importance of one of the most popular cities of Spain.
Big City Food Biographies-Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 At the Top of the Gastronomic World: Nature, Science, Foam Chapter 2 Medieval Cooking in Catalonia Chapter 3 Cooking Up a Nation Chapter 4 The Greatest Fresh Markets in the World Chapter 5 Detecting Catalan Cuisine: Following the Trail of Pepe Carvalho Chapter 6 Traditional Catalan Dishes Today Notes Bibliography Index
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