Nova Cuina Catalana

In the early twenty-first century, nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain, this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia’s pro-independence movement, and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols, culture and identity in everyday life. Nourishing the Nation provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

This is an illustrated guide to contemporary Catalonian cuisine, which includes its major figures and restaurants, from Barcelona and throughout Catalonia. The book features established and up-and-coming creative chefs, and a series of recipes that bear witness to their talent and reputation. In addition there is a selection of specialty shops, markets and fairs where local produce can be purchased, as well as cooking schools where professional methods are taught. This publication also includes a guide to restaurants serving both fresh, seasonal and Mediterranean cuisine.

This publication by Dr. Antoni Riera Melis and Dr. Joan Santanach presents a bibliographic tour through the history of Catalan cuisine on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the first edition of the Llibre del coc, attributed to Master Robert, chef to King Ferdinand of Naples, and printed in Barcelona at the press of Carles Amorós in the year 1520. This work enjoyed great success and has had more than half a dozen editions in Catalan and a dozen in Spanish with the title: Libro de guisados. The Biblioteca de Catalunya holds a very rich bibliographic collection on gastronomy and this work shows a taste of the documentation that can be found there. The book contains interviews with specialists in the field who provide a multifaceted vision of gastronomy, among which are Salvador Capdevila, Narcís Comadira, Laura Conde, Jesús Contreras Hernández, Toni Massanés and Carme Ruscalleda. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and a list of digital resources that contribute to the research and understanding of the Catalan gastronomic heritage.

A Nova York hi viuen uns 2,000 catalans. Son agents comercials de productes espanyols. Tambe empleats de grans bancs i caixes amb oficines alli obertes, empleats de grans companyies o monopolis espanyols, corresponsals de premsa, equips de televisio, advocats mixtes en les dues lleis l'americana i l'espanyola, cos diplomatic i consular acreditat als Estats Units i duplicat a les Nacions Unides, i cambres de comerc, estudiants becaris, i tants d'altres. Una vegada a la setmana o al mes, molts d'ells es reuneixen en algun bar-restaurant espanyol, per parlar del Barca, i evidentment, comentar els fets tan diferents a la seva cultura, que, a diari els passen en aquell gran pais: els Estats Units d' America.

In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humour in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical and cognitive focus that captures the changing fortunes of Catalan humour production against the shifting political landscape in the period 1898–1982. It considers how Catalan satire has been influenced by periods of relative calm as well as censorship, violence, war and dictatorship, and among its key features is its presentation of a continued cartooning tradition that was not ended by the installation of the Franco dictatorship, but which rather continued in a number of adapted forms, playing its own role in the evolution of the period. Thus, as well as introducing the most representative cartoonists and publications, the Catalan example is used to explore broader aspects of this complex communication form, opening new avenues for cultural, historical and socio-political research.

Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigó (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, both tragic and triumphant, of the medieval origins of modern Catalonia. The collision between duty and love is mirrored by the symbolic conflict between, on the one hand, a powerful folk mythology rooted in the natural geography and, on the other, the widely institutionalized universalism of Christianity concomitant to the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. Rich in lyrical and thematic correspondence with long poems ranging from La chanson de Roland, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Spenser's Faerie Queene to Milton's Paradise Lost, Longfellow's Evangeline and Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Verdaguer's masterful verse rivals all the legendary magic and wonder of the mountains themselves. Jacint Verdaguer is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature. Ronald Puppo is the translator of Selected Poems of Jacint Verdaguer: A Bilingual Edition. Mount Canigó: A Tale of Catalonia is published in association with Editorial Barcino. Winner of the 2016 "Serra d'Or" Critics Award for Research in Catalan Studies