Giving or treating yourself to new books linked to things like eating is a sure success because there is no longer a bad vintage or Sant Jordi in which we do not have good titles. The problem, rather, is to choose, and it has not been easy to select only the 12 news that we recommend today, for a varied and intense approaching April 23.
As an example of the latter, the publications of two good friends, Albert Molins, a journalist from La Vanguardia who publishes his first book Comer sin asking permission (Rosameron) and Maria Nicolau, who returns without mincing words, as shown in her very successful Cuina or barbarism, which is now followed by Quemo! (Column in Catalan and Peninsula in Spanish). Molins asks questions about these increasingly common obstacles to the pleasure of eating. And he very successfully addresses everything from the vindication of the autonomy of our body to the social and cultural aspects related to the act of eating, without forgetting that food is a political act. In ¡Quemo!, Nicolau relates with his great sensitivity in the autobiographical description the career of a true kitchen worker and vindicates the rights of a profession for which he asks that one not be required to be an artist but rather to guarantee decent conditions, as any man deserves. normal and ordinary professional.
Readers curious about the act of feeding ourselves will also find in bookstores the stories about what we eat and what we ate in the review by British journalist and writer Alex Renton in 13 Foods That Changed the World (RBA).
Those who want to delve into the history of two emblematic houses in Catalonia have just released Motel Empordà, praise of stable love (Editorial Gavarres), written by Xavier Febrés, with a prologue by Jaume Subirós and epilogues by Joan and Josep Roca and Via Veneto. The great restaurant in Barcelona (Planeta Gastro) in which the journalist Trinitat Gilbert and the photographer Jordi Play have captured the essence of the emblematic Barcelona restaurant.
A few weeks ago we pointed out that Carles Gaig publishes his recipes for the first time. Les millors receptes by Carles Gaig (Columna), with photos by Carles Allende, is a book that has already come out of the press and has become an indispensable recipe book. Korean cuisine is fashionable and preparing some of its specialties at home is not that difficult, as chef Jina Jung demonstrates in Journey to the Heart of Korean Home Cooking (Cinco Tintas).
From Korea we go to Japan, reinterpreted with ingenuity. Pablo Albuerne's sense of humor and pragmatism and his Gipsy Chef alter ego in Quiero ser Japanese (Cúpula). And from the East to the different shores of the Mediterranean, which none other than Joan Roca does in Cooking the Mediterranean (Planeta Gastro in Spanish and Columna in Catalan), with simple traditional recipes also to make at home.
And the one who makes a succulent review of the different shores of the Mediterranean is none other than Joan Roca in Cuinar el Mediterrani (Planeta Gastro), with simple traditional recipes also to make at home. The sweet part of this selection is signed by Oriol Balaguer, who also goes down to the home field to share a series of chocolate-based recipes without having to be a professional. He does it in Oh La Chocolat (Planeta Gastro) and Lluc Crusellas in Reserva't per les desserts (Ara Llibres).
And who is in charge of poetry? Well, the writer and field veterinarian María Sánchez, a regular collaborator on the Comer channel of La Vanguardia and from whom we recommend giving and treating ourselves to a delicious and small book of poems, Fuego la sed, freshly baked by the publishing house La Bella Varsovia.
