A Late Dinner

A bright new commercial paperback package Nueva cocina is the new nouvelle cuisine and the Observer Food Monthly has just declared tapas the 'food of the future'. There is an increasing interest in Spanish food: Moro: The Cookbook has sold nearly 100,000 copies in the UK and Ferran Adria's El Bulli restaurant has been voted 'Best Restaurant in the World' For fans of Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour

Takes us on a journey past the cliches of paella and gazpacho to tell the real story of Spain's mouth-watering food, from the typical coastal cuisine to the shepherd cooking of the interior and the chic 'urban' food of Madrid and Barcelona. Along the way, the author also gets caught up in a fish auction and the annual pig slaughter.In this vivid and humorous journey, Richardson takes us past the cliches of paella and gazpacho to tell the real story of Spain's mouth-watering food, from the typical coastal cuisine to the shepherd cooking of the interior and the chic 'urban' food of Madrid and Barcelona. Along the way he gets caught up in a fish auction and the annual pig slaughter, spends a day at El Bulli restaurant and makes a never-ending stream of new friends.