Cooking of Spain and Portugal

Cooking of Spain and Portugal is more than a cookbook, but an in-depth venture into the region and the people from which the cuisine originates. This book takes a recipe like garlic soup (sopa de ajo) and explains the simplicity of the ingredients (pp. 21) with a picture of the dish. These Time-Life Foods of the World Books are narrative cookbooks, which means that along with the scrumptious easy-to-duplicate recipes, comes a history of the country and the way they eat, peeks into family life, maps of the area, and amusing anecdotes from real people about the foods of the country and how they are eaten and prepared.