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Tilting at Windmills with Don Quixote, Or, A Meditation on Spanish Herbals

  Illustration by Octavio Ocampo I’ll confess something here:  until just recently, I never read Don Quixote, except for snippets here and there. No, thanks to the preferences of my Spanish professors, instead I spent days swooning over the lyricism of poets Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda or stumbling through conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of Hernando Cortés’s conquest of…

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Dinner, last night: a Brazilian cocktail (via The Food You Want To Eat), herb salad and honeyed chicken (from the GoT cookbook), and bananas sauteed in butter with anisette and almonds (from The Food and Wines of Spain).

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Remembering Penelope Casas, a Greek-American Food Writer with a Spanish Heart*

Remembering Penelope Casas, a Greek-American Food Writer with a Spanish Heart*

Now this may seem strange to you, and it does feel odd to me at times, but through the six books Penelope Casas wrote and the recipes she shared, I felt a bond with her. Over the years, her books and recipes slowly inserted themselves into my life, their presence like big sisters or favorite aunts standing next to me as I wiped my flour-coated hands on my “kitchen” shirt or whisked eggs and…

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The Foods & Wines of Spain

Penelope Casas

1982

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Tapas | Penelope Casas

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The Foods and Wines of Spain | Penelope Casas

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Cookbooks Tell the Story of Our Lives: Remembering Penelope Casas and The Foods and Wines of Spain

Cookbooks Tell the Story of Our Lives: Remembering Penelope Casas and The Foods and Wines of Spain

Penelope Casas, an expert on Spanish cuisine, passed away last week, not too long after the death of yet another one of my favorite food writers, Leslie Land.

Now this may seem strange to you, and it does feel odd to me at times, but through the books these writers wrote and the recipes they shared, I felt a bond with them, because their books and recipes slowly inserted themselves into my life,…

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