Spanish recipes for everyday cooking: Simple recipes for a healthy mediterranean diet

Alfonso López Alonso

Recetas de rechupete

About this ebook

More than 100 easy recipes based on Spanish and Mediterranean cuisine for a healthy and diverse diet. This book brings together the best dishes from recetasderechupete.com, one of the most popular recipe blogs in Spanish.This title features: 107 easy recipes with step-by-step instructions; colour photos of every recipe; and lively personal anecdotes.

FOREWORD

I could tell you that this is a wonderful book. I could also tell you that this book is full of marvelous recipes, illustrated with mouthwatering pictures which would make you dream of savoring these dishes one day. I could comment on how well explained all the tricks and techniques needed to cook these recipes are. I could do all this and I would not be lying.

But instead I rather talk about the author. A guy I liked from the minute I met him. He is full of good vibes, and has always helped me and other gastro bloggers in every way he could. Alfonso is one of those odd people who likes everyone, who does not fit the stereotype of a cautious Galician since he is bold and direct, and on top of everything he is no dummy. I also deeply admire him for creating one of the best blogs in Spain Recetas de Rechupete.

You might be thinking that you couldn’t care less about all this, and that the personal qualities of the author are not necessary when judging the recipes in a cookbook. This could be true about a conventional cookbook, but never about a blogger’s cookbook. The main value in any blog is that it is personal; no one else could have written it. And when it comes to culinary blogs, it is important that they reflect the origins, experiences, tastes, and the obsessions of the person that is driving it.

Both Recetas de Rechupete and the book are 100% Alfonso, they ooze earnestness and frankness, simplicity, closeness, but above all, the good food enthusiasm put into it by the author. I would love to have my own Alfonso preparing all these meals for me, enjoying his conversation. But since this is impossible, at least until the electronic author is invented, I will just have to resign myself to having the book in my computer and reverting to it every time I am in the mood for an everyday meal.

Mikel López Iturriaga · El Comidista
(Blogger and journalist at elpais.com)

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About the author

"I once heard a great gourmet say, that mankind has to nourish itself to survive, but only a few men and women really know how to eat. I may add to this that dishes should be chosen only through deep reflection, and they should be savored with your imagination." - Álvaro Cunqueiro

I have to say I completely agree with this sentence written by Alvaro Cunqueiro in his book "Cocina Gallega" published by Everest in 1973. I read this book in my youth, when I started to cook with my mother's help. My mother is responsible for my eagerness to enter the kitchen and to cook for my friends and family. She is also the reason that I love the challenge of opening a fridge, selecting ingredients and using my imagination to prepare a marvelous dish like the one described above by the great gourmet.

My name is Alfonso López, I am from Galicia and I am very proud of it. This is why the base of my cooking comes from these traditional recipes from this wonderful part of Spain, where the quality of ingredients and devotion to them is so important. I like to cook traditional recipes from different places. Living in a big city allows me to try different world cuisines and bring new scents and flavors into my kitchen. At the end of the day, my cooking is the traditional cooking with a few new touches.

Since 2009 I have been publishing my recipes in my blog: www.recetasderechupete.com. Feel free to visit my website to continue to learn how to cook, step by step, all these traditional dishes.