Review: Looks delicious
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2012
You never now how you end up with a book sometimes.  This one came to be by a collision of conversations.  I am an author, and I had noted that among other countries, my books are in Spain.  In what I thought was an unrelated conversation, I was talking about how my wife and I are eating a lot healthier and have been enjoying dishes and recipes that are quite an adventure.  Somehow the question came up about paella.  Then, because a friend of a friend is connected to this particular book - it ends up on my Kindle, my wife and I get to peruse the recipes - and here I am....Looks delicious!  Admittedly, I cannot speak to the authenticity with any knowledge - but the recipes look delicious.  They really do look like what I might expect to get in the kitchen of a Spanish grandmother if I were visiting Spain.  As I'm reading the recipes, I can just imagine one of our old family friends in a traditional style kitchen making the dish.  Perhaps that is part of why I liked this book so much - not just for the recipes themselves and how delicious they look - but for the story behind the dishes.  I only have a little actual Spanish blood in me, but I have friends with family ties to Spain - and, to them, I imagine this little recipe book would spark a great many wonderful thoughts.If you want to try authentic paella, if you want to do it like they do it in Spain, this, to me, looks like just the way to go.It very well may be worth five stars, but I do not know authentic paella from inauthentic, so I leave that determination to someone with the background to say so.  Assuming so, though, someone in whom these recipes stir more stories and memories than they do in me would very likely give it five stars.