"Recipes: Cooking of Spain & Portugal" published by Time Life Books, 1969. First Edition.

Spiral bound soft cover [a little wear and soiling: see photos], 6" x 9"; 112 pages including two Indexes [in English + original Spanish & Portuguese], 3 blank pages for notes, very good condition.

"When Time-Life first published its series, Foods of the World, it fell right in step with what people like Julia Child and Irma and Marion Rombauer were doing for American cooking: opening our eyes (and mouths) to fabulous food, introducing us to the luscious cuisines and enlightening cooking methods of cultures all around the globe." [from a review]

"One of the other great delights of these cookbooks was the choice of authors commissioned to write them. Time-Life called upon the talents of wonderful writers like Peter Feibleman, playwright, essayist, and sometimes-lover/sometimes-collaborator of Lillian Hellman's to write The Cooking of Spain and Portugal. (Feibleman was co-author of Hellman's last book, Eating Together, which one should read for the writing as much as for the recipes therein.) Feibleman often lived in Spain, and he grasped its various cultures well. He took the time, both as a lover of good food and a lover of a good story, to learn the history of traditional dishes and the various regions from which each came. He brings the settings of the cuisines to life, explaining for example, the history of Gazpacho, which comes originally from the breathtakingly hot region of Andalusia." [from a review]

"I have made many of the recipes in this book, and I have yet to find a dud among them. One of my favorites is the flamboyant, fabulous sweet almond cake from Portugal, locally referred to as Toucinho do Ceu, or "Bacon From Heaven". Once you eat this confection, you will find it as addictive as the meat for which it is nicknamed. Luckily the time involved in making it deems it something I can make occasionally, not daily." [from a review]

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