Cook!, 9781324106258
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Catalonia’s heart and hearth: taste tradition, find yourself.
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Cook!

How Not to Be a Barbarian

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    24 August 2026

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Summary

Cook! is born from a region where food is not a trend but a language–Catalonia, with its earthy, generous, and fiercely rooted cooking traditions, from sauces simmered slowly in heavy pans to brothy seafood stews and crusty bread slathered with tomato. The voice behind it is a woman who knows her way around both kitchen and culture, a Catalan chef who’s less interested in being precise in her cooking than in being present. In a world that constantly tries to sell shortcuts and the my…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781324106258
ISBN-10:1324106255
Author:Maria Nicolau, Mary Ann Newman
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:W. W. Norton & Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:24 August 2026
Weight:0g
About The Author

Maria Nicolau

Maria Nicolau is a chef and food writer. For more than twenty years, she has worked in restaurants across Catalonia, Spain, and France. She lives in Vilanova de Sau, Osona, where she runs the restaurant El Ferrer de Tall, devoted to Catalan cuisine.

Mary Ann Newman translates fiction, poetry, and essays from Catalan. She founded the Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the United States, and received the Creu de Sant Jordi and other awards for her translations and advocacy for Catalan culture. She lives in Manhattan.

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