Spanish regional gastronomy is poised to succeed Italian cuisine as the Mediterranean culinary trend of choice, attracting gastronomes and culinary professionals alike to the country each year, both to sample the cuisine as well as to enroll in culinary instruction programs. Recent publications have celebrated some of the newer trends in the cuisine of Catalunya, but the pleasures of the classic "cuina catalana" are as yet unknown to many gastronomes, particularly in North America.
Colman Andrew's well-regarded book of several years ago, Catalan Cuisine, has been the invaluable English-language resource for information pertaining to the region's foods and cooking techniques. The Catalan Table would compliment this work, presenting a core group of classic recipes in a lavishly illustrated volume intended for a general audience. The book would feature some of the most important of the classic dishes of Catalan cuisine, lavishly photographed, along with sidebars highlighting the various food purveyors, restaurateurs, and chefs in the region devoted to upholding this unique and important cuisine.
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Kevin Hanek is is an award-winning New York art director, book designer, and packager who has collaborated on book projects with publishers including Rizzoli, Simon & Schuster, Lebhar-Friedman Books, The Free Press, Rutgers University Press, HarperCollins, Schirmer Books, Kodansha, Sterling, and Smithmark, and in conjunction with such prestigious organizations as The New York Times, the American Academy of Chefs, London's Tate Gallery, PBS, The History Channel, and the Culinary Institute of America. His work has been recognized with awards from the New York Book Show, the American Association of University Presses, and the Independent Publishers Book Awards.
Ben Fink is an award-winning photographer, whose work has been featured in Saveur, Bon App�tit, and Food & Wine magazines, as well as in several books, including the James Beard Award-winning Artisan Baking Across America. He is a member of Who's Who in American Photography and resides in New York City. The Catalan Table, and all recipes, photographs, and text from the unpublished manuscript appearing on this site, � 2011 by Kevin Hanek, as author and photographer, all rights reserved.
