Grape, Olive, Pig, Matt Goulding
Grape, Olive, Pig, Matt Goulding
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Grape, Olive, Pig
Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

Author: Matt Goulding

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/27/2020

Synopsis

Matt Goulding introduces you to the sprawling culinary and geographical landscape of his adoptive home, and offers an intimate portrait of this multifaceted country, its remarkable people, and its complex history. Fall in love with Barcelona's tiny tapas bars and modernist culinary temples. Explore the movable feast of small plates and late nights in Madrid. Join the three-thousand-year-old hunt for Bluefin tuna off the coast of Cadiz, then continue your seafood journey north to meet three sisters who risk their lives foraging the gooseneck barnacle, one of Spain's most treasured ingredients. Delight in some of the world's most innovative and avant-garde edible creations in San Sebastian, and then wash them down with cider from neighboring Asturias. Sample the world's finest acorn-fed ham in Salamanca, share in the traditions of cave-dwelling shepherds in the mountains beyond Granada, and debate what constitutes truly authentic paella in Valencia.

Grape, Olive, Pig reveals hidden gems and enduring delicacies from across this extraordinary country, contextualizing each meal with the stories behind the food in a cultural narrative. Whether you've visited Spain or have only dreamed of bellying up to its tapas bars, Grape, Olive, Pig will wake your imagination, rouse your hunger, and capture your heart.

About Matt Goulding

Matt Goulding is an Emmy- and James Beard Award-winning writer and the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books. He is also cofounder of Roads & Kingdoms, the 2017 James Beard Publication of the Year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by V.E. on February 15, 2017

Not just for foodies this interesting book, written by an adopted son of Spain, considers the country from a historical, cultural, and geographic perspective.......more

Goodreads review by Meg - A Bookish Affair on December 06, 2016

A book like "Grape, Olive, Pig" should carry a warning level and that warning level should say something like "Do not read on an empty stomach." I would also be inclined to add "Make sure you already have a future trip to Spain planned." Unfortunately for me, I do not have a trip to Spain booked.........more

Goodreads review by Deb on November 29, 2016

There are people who can tell you about a restaurant or dinner they went to and you think, "that sounds good." Then there are passionate food lovers who can describe what they saw, smelled, ate and tasted in such exquisite detail that you are convinced that you must have whatever it is that they are......more

Goodreads review by Diane on November 29, 2016

Grape, Olive, Pig- Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture begins with Matt Goulding as a high school senior traveling with his class on a trip to Spain in 1998. Goulding fell in love with Spain and on a return trip in 2010, he fell in love with a Catalan woman named Laura, a woman he was destined......more

Goodreads review by Emily on September 14, 2018

In each section, Goulding tackles a specific region of Spain and dives deep into the regional food culture and the people driving it. His descriptions are delicious--I didn't know food writing could be this good (clearly I underestimated the genre). I also loved how his personal life (he married a C......more

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