Cuina! o Barbàrie

Cooking is not following instructions, or submitting to a list of ingredients, or carefully planning the supermarket purchase. On the contrary, cooking is everything that happens in the margins of a recipe: it is improvising, risking, deciding. Cooking is being free. Against the extinction of this daring, against the I-don't-have-time syndrome and the barbarism of a society that eats but doesn't cook, this book urges us to recover the meaning of the most primitive act of life: feeding ourselves.Enthusiastic and nonconformist, Maria Nicolau opens the doors to a rich, sustainable, passionate and, above all, coherent cuisine. A kitchen explained through history and science, nature and technology, collective episodes and intimate experience. Why is the pot the first invention of civilization? What causes cakes to puff up in the oven? Why do we only buy salmon and hake, when the Mediterranean is full of other varieties of fish? In this book, beyond the recipes, you will find a kitchen that responds to the need to subsist, but also to the pleasure of sharing and that reminds us that we are ultimately responsible for the way we live.