This book, which lays before the reader 128 recipes and 80 poems. It invites you to go on a culinary journey through the eight provinces of Andalusia and to prepare traditional Andalusian dishes: dishes which are balanced, easy to make, heathy and the quintessential expression of the Mediterranean diet.

I hope that you will likewise delight in the extracts of poems from the finest of Andalusian poets which span back over the last ten centuries.

Here, I hope to have brought together the culinary and poetic languages of Andalusia, as two expressions of its culture to those from other lands and cultures.