Penelope Casas (1943–2013)
Author of Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain
About the Author
Penelope Casas was born in Whitestone, Queens, New York on May 25, 1943. She received a degree in Spanish literature from Vassar. She wrote numerous books on Spanish cooking in the hopes of clarifying the identity of Spanish food for Americans, who generally confused it with Mexican and South show more American cuisines. Her books include The Foods and Wines of Spain, Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain, Delicioso! Regional Cooking of Spain, Paella! Spectacular Rice Dishes from Spain, and La Cocina de Mama: The Great Home Cooking of Spain. Her last book, 1,000 Spanish Recipes, will be published in 2014. The Spanish government awarded her the National Gastronomy Prize in 1983, in recognition of her role as a herald of the Spanish cooking tradition in the United States. She died from complications of treatment for leukemia on August 11, 2013 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Penelope Casas
Associated Works
Food and Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes 2006 Volume 9 (2006) — Contributor — 113 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Fexas, Penelope
- Birthdate
- 1943-05-25
- Date of death
- 2013-08-11
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Vassar College
University of Madrid - Occupations
- cookbook author
- Cause of death
- leukemia
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Manhasset, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Manhasset, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
Members
Reviews
With 1,000 recipes, the late Penelope Casas has created an exhaustive guide to cooking with recipes from all parts of Spain and from Spanish ex-pats abroad. There are recipes for dishes and ingredients I'd never heard of. What's best about this book is that there are so many recipes you can craft quickly and for pennies that readers will save money and escape from mediocre fast food.
All these books coming out, riding the tidal wave of interest in Tapas in the last decade, but this is still my favorite one. It's comprehensive, inventive and imaginative. And the author never gets in the way of the work. It's delicious.
Lovely little book filled with tempting recipes & mouth-watering photos. The recipes seem easy enough to follow...but if I had to make these for sure I'd double the ingredients, too much work for such a small amount of food.
I am marking this down because the print is approximately 8 pt. which makes it almost invisible.
I am marking this down because the print is approximately 8 pt. which makes it almost invisible.
Instead of an ordinary guidebook, we used this one as our "bible" as we traversed the road from the French/Spanish border to the Costa del Sol.
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- Works
- 12
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 1,107
- Popularity
- #23,219
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 8
- ISBNs
- 25
- Languages
- 1