{"id":18768,"date":"2013-02-09T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T07:20:10","slug":"what-im-reading-still-reading-the-food-of-spain-by-claudia-roden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/what-im-reading-still-reading-the-food-of-spain-by-claudia-roden\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Still Reading &#8220;The Food of Spain&#8221; by Claudia Roden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/look-whats-new-the-food-of-spain-penguin-by-claudia-roden\/spring-graden-006a-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-17229\" title=\"Spring Graden 006a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-006a1-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-006a1-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-006a1-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-006a1.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>I posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/look-whats-new-the-food-of-spain-penguin-by-claudia-roden\/\">receiving <strong><em>The Food of Spain<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Claudia Roden in November.<\/p>\n<p>And I am still reading the book. In part that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m busy: with my own books to write, with interviewing and blogging and all the other multifarious aspects of the life literary (as opposed to &#8216;aquatic.&#8217; \ud83d\ude09 ) In part though, it&#8217;s also because it&#8217;s a cookbook, which is more of a &#8216;browser&#8217; than a sit-down-an-and-read type book.<\/p>\n<p>Shall I tell you what I really love about this book, though? It&#8217;s not actually the recipes although they are great, too. It&#8217;s the interest I find in the introductory sections, which deal with the many distinct regions of Spain and their culinary history. And it&#8217;s the features on the people&#8212;personalities like Angelita Garcia de Paredes Barreda. whom I have just read about on page 138. Wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes,and the photos of Spain: glorious&#8212;although personally I could do with a few more &#8216;legends&#8217; to tell me what I&#8217;m looking at. (Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/static\/cs\/uk\/0\/aboutus\/aboutpenguin_publishingstructure.html#michaeljoseph\">Penguin: Michael Joseph<\/a>, I am looking at you!)<\/p>\n<p>But since I&#8217;m only at page 138: onwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted on receiving The Food of Spain by Claudia Roden in November. And I am still reading the book. In part that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m busy: with my own books to write, with interviewing and blogging and all the other multifarious aspects of the life literary (as opposed to &#8216;aquatic.&#8217; \ud83d\ude09 ) In part though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}