Sopas frías y calientes

Descorchados es hoy la más importante referencia de vinos sudamericanos. Publicada por primera vez en 1999, por ya más de dos décadas analiza la escena vitícola de este lado del mundo, un extenso y profundo reporte anual sobre los mejores vinos de Sudamérica, pero también sobre las tendencias y de los nombres que hay que conocer. Nuevas regiones, nuevos tipos de uvas y nuevos estilos de vinos, una foto en gran angular de lo que hoy sucede en las principales regiones productoras de Latinoamérica y más de 4.000 vinos para beber. ¡Que disfruten!

Through these pages, we will learn about the evolution of Spanish cuisine from Iberian acorn flour cakes to Ferrán Adrià's spherical melon caviar. We will discover that the best story about the fruitful coexistence between Christian, Jewish and Muslim cuisines is owed to the prostitute Aldonza: "La lozana andaluza"; that on Columbus's second voyage to the 'West Indies' his sailors ate three manatees, believing them to be rather ugly mermaids; that Spain is the only country that can boast of having had a gourmet dog; that the first written document on potato omelette is dated in the year of...

Includes a variety of simple experiments involving food and cooking principles examining such questions as the effects of heat on different foods, the difference between baking powder and baking soda, and the role of salt.

The book is divided into 12 chapters, each covering a basic culinary category, such as ̀Bread', ̀Sauces' or ̀Custard'. The recipes in each chapter are then arranged on a continuum, the transition from one recipe to another generally amounting to a tweak or two in the method or ingredients