CultureNo eggs, no potatoes but ‘a lot of imagination’: Spain’s recipes from the hunger years
Chef and food writer Berta Álvarez Acal’s book Recetas de Guerra recreates recipes from Spain’s shortages after the civil war. Substitutes included moistened bread and onion for tortilla, fried onion rings for squid and a barley, malt and chicory drink for coffee. The book pays tribute to a generation marked by starvation.
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No eggs, no potatoes but ‘a lot of imagination’: Spain’s recipes from the hunger years
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