When The Barcelona Cookbook showed up on my desk, I initially thought it was a Spanish cookery book, or perhaps a cookbook of tapas recipes. As it turns out, The Barcelona Cookbook is both of these and more. It is a collection of recipes from Barcelona Wine Bar and Restaurants, a group of six restaurants located throughout Connecticut. While the cuisine served at all of the Barcelona restaurants can loosely be called Spanish, the menu is peppered with international influences from the backgrounds of this restaurant group's two owners, Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer. Mahr-Batuz is a former professional tennis champion and restaurateur, and Pforzheimer is a Harvard-educated chef whose varied resume includes cooking dinners for the Harvard Lampoon, working...
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It's certainly not the biggest paella in the world, as it says, but the paella from Keith Floyd's Floyd Does Spain is still rather large: "Chuck in a few tons of red and green peppers, about a kilo of finely-chopped garlic..." (I would've just plopped the video on here as we usually do at Serious Eats, but for some reason embedding is "disabled by request" on this one, so you'll have to click through.)...
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