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Spanish food culture has evolved around strong regional cuisines and representative elements. This volume offers an overview of Spanish food and eating habits, taking into account a long and complex history, plus distinctive social, cultural, linguistic, geographic, political, and economic characteristics. Spain's location at the crossroads of Europe and North Africa has made it a gastronomic melting pot, with Arab influences and New World ingredients particularly noted. Readers will learn about the unique food culture in each region and how food practices and dishes in the Iberian Peninsula have developed over the centuries. Typical dishes and drinks, especially the Spanish wines, are described in context, with many accompanying recipes. Gastronomy in Spain has always been of utmost importance. Recently, the new Spanish gastronomy has taken center stage with internationally recognized chefs. Spaniards are shown to be extremely social eaters and drinkers who like to eat out. The everyday routine of eating out, such as at work and school, is clarified as well. Home cooking and the Spanish kitchen get special attention. Finally, although Spanish food has always been associated with the highly touted Mediterranean diet, health concerns about current eating trends are discussed. A timeline, a chronology, and illustrations round out the coverage.

Spanish food culture has evolved around strong regional cuisines and representative elements. This volume offers an overview of Spanish food and eating habits, taking into account a long and complex history, plus distinctive social, cultural, linguistic, geographic, political, and economic characteristics. Spain's location at the crossroads of Europe and North Africa has made it a gastronomic melting pot, with Arab influences and New World ingredients particularly noted. Readers will learn about the unique food culture in each region and how food practices and dishes in the Iberian Peninsula have developed over the centuries. Typical dishes and drinks, especially the Spanish wines, are described in context, with many accompanying recipes. Gastronomy in Spain has always been of utmost importance. Recently, the new Spanish gastronomy has taken center stage with internationally recognized chefs. Spaniards are shown to be extremely social eaters and drinkers who like to eat out. The everyday routine of eating out, such as at work and school, is clarified as well. Home cooking and the Spanish kitchen get special attention. Finally, although Spanish food has always been associated with the highly touted Mediterranean diet, health concerns about current eating trends are discussed. A timeline, a chronology, and illustrations round out the coverage.

La influencia de los rodajes cinematográficos o televisivos en el interés turístico de determinados destinos ha ido tomando fuerza en los últimos años. En este libro analizamos el caso del rodaje de una superproducción internacional como es Juego de tronos en localizaciones de Irlanda del Norte o Girona, entre otras, examinando su repercusión en clave turística y los modos en que se entrelazan los atractivos preexistentes con la ficción creada por la productora HBO a partir de los libros de George R. R. Martin. Desde la especificidad del uso turístico de una de las series más exitosas de los últimos años podemos extrapolar diferentes reflexiones relacionadas con fenómenos como la construcción de cánones culturales i de imaginarios, o la noción de autoría en una contemporaneidad en la cual las expectativas del público ganan terreno.

Ensayos sobre la migración vasca en el siglo 20.

Internet y las redes sociales son hoy una parte indisoluble en la vida de un número creciente de personas. Este libro se centra en el fenómeno de la cultura alimentaria en la era de Internet, en las relaciones sociales establecidas a través de la comida y las redes virtuales, y en la presencia visual de la comida en Internet. Se presta una especial atención a cómo está surgiendo una nueva cultura alimentaria por esa presencia, a cómo las redes sociales virtuales generan nuevos tipos de sociabilidad culinaria y a cómo se imponen nuevas modas culinarias por su presencia en la red. Internet se revela como un espacio que permite mostrar y compartir nuestras preferencias alimentarias globales y locales, los hábitos que señalan nuestras costumbres a nivel virtual, aquello que consumimos o que valoramos, las formas de comer, las identidades sociales y étnicas, los nuevos patrones de comportamiento, los hábitos o los deseos culinarios. Esta obra presenta aportaciones que debaten y discuten sobre la influencia global-local de Internet y los medios-redes sociales en el marco de la transformación de la cultura y de las culturas alimentarias, desde una perspectiva marcada y buscadamente interdisciplinaria. De este modo, encontraremos trabajos enmarcados en las perspectivas antropológica, sociológica, histórica, nutricional, geográfica o económica, al igual que aproximaciones desde las ciencias de la salud, el turismo o los estudios empresariales. Todo ello tiene como finalidad aportar puntos de vista e interpretaciones que ayuden a aprehender un campo tan vasto, y en pleno crecimiento, como es el de la relación entre las alimentaciones y los mundos virtuales.

Este libro reflexiona sobre las intersecciones entre cultura alimentaria, patrimonio, políticas públicas, desarrollo socioeconómico y turismo desde una perspectiva práctica y crítica, y observa y reflexiona, al mismo tiempo, sobre sus aplicaciones en la praxis.

Set compiles histories of most important Basque clubs around the world, based on first hand memories of emigrants.

A collection of essays on Christian-Muslim relations by one of the world's leading experts.

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.