Cook step-by-step with the Home Cooking Course; 'Mother's recipes'. There aren't only hundreds of cookery books, but thousands. Many are difficult to understand, and often disappointing when instead of the picture-perfect meal displayed at the end, you get a questionable looking mass on the plate. With our new published, old fashioned recipe book, it doesn't matter if you're passionate about cooking or a kitchen virgin, the witty simplicity of the Cooking Course will teach you how to prepare delicious starters, proper meals, and finger-licking desserts in a photographically visual teaching of traditional cooking.
The cook and her recipes
Each of the books " Las recetas de la madre curso de cocina casera" ( The mother's recipes, home cooking course ) bring us traditional recipes from the Spanish kitchen, with healthy Mediterranean ingredients, cooked or accompanied with olive oil. Inés, an 84 years old great grandma, uses only fresh, simple ingredients, and for seasoning just garlic and fresh parsley. From the fish market she takes the catch of the day, always the fresher and usually the cheapest, applying without knowing it, macrobiotic principles. Her stews are epic, her paellas are to die for, and the desserts range from a traditional rice pudding to a surprising tomato and melon marmalade.
Cooking course, step by step
Most cooking books explain the recipes with tons of words and a picture of the plate so perfect that dishearten the amateur cook. " Las recetas de la madre, curso de cocina casera" , takes a different approach. His author, a College professor, has always tried to make it easy for his students to learn, even the more difficult subjects. When he got the idea of documenting the knowledge and secrets of the traditional kitchen that "the mother" possesses, he followed the same principle.
And how did he do it? By photographing the recipe step by step, and seasoning it with humour and colour. He has also experimented with the screen, making a recipe on DVD, which is offered with the second book, and that you can watch in Spanish omelette with green peas.
Smile, say paaa-eeee-llaaa!!
By using images, thousands of words have been saved, and the few ones used are there with the purpose of teaching and entertaining. Humour is the key in both the footnotes to the photographs and in the short introductions to each recipe. Colour is also added with original paintings placed between recipes. You can see them in the Gallery
Tradition
Books like this one leave us the legacy of unveiled secrets of the traditional cuisine, and help us fighting the globalisation that has reached our lives and our kitchens.
