Jose Pizarro

February 26, 2010 · 17 comments

A Broken Promise

in Meat,Soup

After Christmas I made a promise to myself that I would resist buying more cookery book until I had sorted and organised the rather mammoth collection I already own. Well, a couple of weeks back I broke that promise. How could I resist Jose Pizarro’s stunning book, Seasonal Spanish Food? Pizarro’s debut explores the regions [...]

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February 5, 2010 · 16 comments

Unearthed Treasure

in Meat,Rice

Jose Pizarro’s recent guide to Spanish cooking with rice and the chance finding of some Unearthed Catalan cooking sausages at a local store really got me in the mood to embrace the virtues of Spains cuisine; “No, not Spanish, Catalan” (Anya von Bremzen). Catalonia (Catalunya) is a country within a country, with its own language, complex history and [...]

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