Big City Food Biographies Series
Series Editor
Ken Albala, University of the Pacific, kalbala@pacific.edu
Food helps define the cultural identity of cities in much the same way as the distinctive architecture and famous personalities. Great cities have one-of-a-kind food cultures, offering the essence of the multitudes who have immigrated there and shaped foodways through time. The Big City Food Biographies series focuses on those metropolises celebrated as culinary destinations, with their iconic dishes, ethnic neighborhoods, markets, restaurants, and chefs. Guidebooks to cities abound, but these are real biographies that will satisfy readers desire to know the full food culture of a city. Each narrative volume, devoted to a different city, explains the history, the natural resources, and the people that make that citys food culture unique. Each biography also looks at the markets, historic restaurants, signature dishes, and great cookbooks that are part of the citys gastronomic make-up.
Books in the Series
New Orleans: A Food Biography , by Elizabeth M. Williams
San Francisco: A Food Biography , by Erica J. Peters
New York City: A Food Biography, by Andrew F. Smith
Madrid: A Culinary History , by Maria Paz Moreno
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Names: Moreno, Mara Paz, 1970 author.
Title: Madrid : a culinary history / by Maria Paz Moreno.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] | Series: Big city food biographies series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017021863 (print) | LCCN 2017022606 (ebook) | ISBN 9781442266414 (electronic) | ISBN 9781442266407 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: CookingSpainMadridHistory. | Food industry and tradeSpainMadridHistory. | Cooking, SpanishHistory.
Classification: LCC TX723.5.S7 (ebook) | LCC TX723.5.S7 M6743 2018 (print) | DDC 641.5946 /41dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017021863
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To the memory of my father, Fernando Moreno Rubio, who loved books, great food, and traveling the world.
Big City Food BiographiesSeries Foreword
C ities are rather like living organisms. There are nerve centers, circulatory systems, structures that hold them together, and, of course, conduits through which food enters and waste leaves the city. Each city also has its own unique personality, based mostly on the people who live there but also on the physical layout, the habits of interaction, and the places where people meet to eat and drink. More than any other factor, it seems that food is used to define the identity of so many cities.