Portuguese Spanish category: 605 books
Espana
Exploring the Flavors of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Including the chef’s guide to classic Spanish ingredients, this beautifully photographed collection entails tapas (small bites) of meat, seafood and vegetables; scrumptious soups; hearty main dishes; and delectable desserts, all using fresh produce, the finest cheeses and meats, and special spices.
La Paella
Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain's Mediterranean Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The most famous dish of the hottest cuisine in town right now, paella is as flavorful as it is festive. Longtime Barcelona resident and Spanish food expert Jeff Koehler fills us in on this cherished rice dish, from its origins to just what it takes to make the perfect one (even without an authentic...
Postres de rechupete
80 recetas para endulzarte la vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 13, 2013
80 recetas de repostería y deliciosos postres típicos explicados paso a paso. Recuerda esos sabores y olores de las meriendas y desayunos caseros que preparaban nuestras madres y abuelas. Todas las recetas están descritas con sumo detalle, paso a paso con todos los trucos para...
by Nuñez Quesada, Maria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Plato antiquísimo su origen se remonta al siglo XVI la tortilla se asocia con la cocina española tradicional, pero existen versiones muy antiguas italianas (frittatas) y francesas (omelettes), por citar sólo dos ejemplos, lo que la convierte en una comida universal. La combinación de papas y huevos...
by Nuñez Quesada, Maria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Podemos definir a la paella como el plato nacional español. Si bien la palabra, en realidad, es el nombre del recipiente donde se la debe cocinar una especie de sartén con dos o más asas pequeñas que tiene poca profundidad y una gran superficie el uso popular ha rebautizado al plato como “paella”...
by Nuñez Quesada, Maria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Las tortillas, los panqueques y las omelettes son platos muy antiguos, asociados en sus orígenes con las cocinas española y francesa tradicionales, pero hoy podemos decir que se trata de manjares universales.
by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, 1856 – 1912) fue un escritor, filólogo, crítico literario e historiador de las ideas español.
Consagrado fundamentalmente y con extraordinaria erudición reconstructiva a la historia de las ideas, la interpretación crítica y la historiografía de la Estética,...
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics
Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain by Katarzyna Olga Beilin takes readers on a journey through the history of alternative thought that challenges mainstream understandings of the relations between the human and nonhuman...
Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction
Essays on Contemporary Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores the...
In Pursuit of Poem Shadows
Pureza Cantelo's Second Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Born in the small Extremaduran town of Moraleja in 1946, Spanish poet Pureza Canelo, at the age of twenty-five, published her first collections of poetry, Celda verde and Lugar comon (winner of the 1970 Adonais Prize). By 1979, she had settled upon an understanding of her own aesthetic evolvement,...
by Slav N. Gratchev
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book is the first scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from the angle of dialogism and polyphony. To begin with, although Mikhail Bakhtin considered Dostoevsky the “creator of a polyphonic novel,” we believe that the first elements of polyphony can be observed in Cervantes’ Don Quixote....
Textual Agency
Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political,...
Ambiguous Antidotes
Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius’ Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice,...