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Beautifully designed, fun layout and genuinely good cooking. --The Bookseller
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Following the multi-award winning title MoVida, chef and restaurateur Frank Camorra returns to his native Spain in this companion book. In it Frank delivers many traditional as well as innovative recipes that are inspired by his travels but perfected for the home cook. Their origins lie in the authentic cuisine of the Spanish cities, towns and countryside. From the nation's bustling capital Madrid and Basque seaside towns to rustic Andalusia with its Sherry Triangle, MoVida Rustica highlights the pillars of Spanish cooking, and the culture in which the food is grown, prepared and eaten. Some of the core ingredients like smoked paprika, known as pimenton, chorizo and the omnipresent jamon Serrano and Iberico are covered with their mouth watering recipes, lore and manufacturers. Get to know matriarch Herminda, stroll across the Santiago Market and visit the kitchen gardens of Salamanca to understand what defines traditional Spanish food. Key points: MoVida was winner of the Australian Food Media ward 'Best Cookery Book by a Chef or Restaurant' in 2008; MoVida, the first book by chef and restaurateur Frank Camorra was hugely successful and won Best Designed Book of the year at the Australian Publishers Association's book design awards in 2008; beautifully presented and featuring captivating food and travel photography, MoVida Rustica highlights the pillars of rustic Spanish cooking, its culture and the way the food is prepared and eaten.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Some cookbooks are bit, you know, OK, but they don't set the world alight, they don't catch you. They might have some good ideas and some good recipes, some good photography and some good writing, but they never rise above the sum of their parts. You don't find yourself sat down just reading them.
MoVida Rustica isn't one of those books. It's exactly the opposite. It's a book worth reading and absorbing for the sake of it, just because it's so beautifully written and presented, just because it has heart and soul.
The food is inspirational. There's a chapter on the majestic Spanish ham, and what to do with it. Simplicity is best, it seems. Stuff a pan fried trout with it. Use it in a tomato and ham sandwich, the bread toasted, rubbed with garlic and drizzled with olive oil. Lay it over huevos rotos, fried eggs and potatoes.
Pastry dishes are also well represented, from a tart of puff pastry and melon to an immediately inspiring recipe for alfajores, biscuits of spiced fruit and almonds, flavoured with Pedro Ximenez sherry.
MoVida Rustica isn't one of those books. It's exactly the opposite. It's a book worth reading and absorbing for the sake of it, just because it's so beautifully written and presented, just because it has heart and soul.
The food is inspirational. There's a chapter on the majestic Spanish ham, and what to do with it. Simplicity is best, it seems. Stuff a pan fried trout with it. Use it in a tomato and ham sandwich, the bread toasted, rubbed with garlic and drizzled with olive oil. Lay it over huevos rotos, fried eggs and potatoes.
Pastry dishes are also well represented, from a tart of puff pastry and melon to an immediately inspiring recipe for alfajores, biscuits of spiced fruit and almonds, flavoured with Pedro Ximenez sherry.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a splendid piece of work. Amazing photography, beautiful page design, elegant text layout and some interesting fonts. Add to that some great quality paper and you have a really first class presentation.
This is my first collection of Spanish recipes to join my groaning cookbook shelves. There are undoubtedly some recipes that I will explore and enjoy - but the layout of the book does make it rather hard to find things.
Everything is split up into sections (Tapas, various regions and so forth) but it does mean that starters, mains, side dishes and desserts are all mixed in with one another. I may be a traditionalist - but, on the whole, I prefer to look for recipes in a more ordered fashion.
This is very much a personal preference and in no way diminishes the book as a collection of tasty ideas. It will just take me a while to get used to it as a reference manual.
It will never actually go into my kitchen - I will write the recipes out so that I don't damage the book!!
This is my first collection of Spanish recipes to join my groaning cookbook shelves. There are undoubtedly some recipes that I will explore and enjoy - but the layout of the book does make it rather hard to find things.
Everything is split up into sections (Tapas, various regions and so forth) but it does mean that starters, mains, side dishes and desserts are all mixed in with one another. I may be a traditionalist - but, on the whole, I prefer to look for recipes in a more ordered fashion.
This is very much a personal preference and in no way diminishes the book as a collection of tasty ideas. It will just take me a while to get used to it as a reference manual.
It will never actually go into my kitchen - I will write the recipes out so that I don't damage the book!!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Camorra, owner of MoVida and MoVida Next Door restaurants, ties the recipes together with his own personal experiences and the people and places he got to know as he traveled Spain to put together this volume. This is not a book for people who don't like to make an effort in the kitchen, as most of the recipes, although not at all difficult, do require a bit of organization and studying first, like the octopus terrine.
This is however a book for anyone and everyone who is captivated, mesmerized even, by amazing food photography. Alan Benson photographed my top two favorite books from 2009. And though I don't like to shunt the food content to the background, this really is first and foremost a high impact visual extravaganza. The food and travel photography in MoVida Rustica is so fantastic, and the writing flows so well in this book, and the book just feels so nice in your hands, that even if you never cook from it, you'll find yourself opening it again and again for photographic and styling inspiration.
This is however a book for anyone and everyone who is captivated, mesmerized even, by amazing food photography. Alan Benson photographed my top two favorite books from 2009. And though I don't like to shunt the food content to the background, this really is first and foremost a high impact visual extravaganza. The food and travel photography in MoVida Rustica is so fantastic, and the writing flows so well in this book, and the book just feels so nice in your hands, that even if you never cook from it, you'll find yourself opening it again and again for photographic and styling inspiration.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Gorgeous book
A beautifully produced book with lovely thick pages and inspiring photography. It not only makes you want to cook all the recipes but also to visit the restaurant in Melbourne and... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dolly
Must be one of the best Spanish Cookbooks Around
If you're looking for a great book re Spanish cuisine, this has to be it. The stories attached to each chapter are wonderful. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ms. Anne Manson
Recommended
Lovely photographs inside and a wonderful selection of recipes I'm dying to try.Prompt delivery! Great Buy.
Published 23 months ago by Mr. Jeanpierre Rossouw
Rustica - really Spanish
needs to have alternatives for specific Spanish ingredients, not that easy to get some of the ingredients when you live in a small town. Read more
Published on 16 April 2010 by Cheryl Anderson
Yum Yum
Really lovely book, great info on Spanish culture and their view on food. Good service good quality
Published on 6 April 2010 by Mrs. Alison Hale
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