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¿Las Algas se Comen?: Un Periplo por la Biología, la Historia, las Curiosidades y la Gastronomía [Those Curious and Delicious Seaweeds: A Fascinating Voyage from Biology to Gastronomy]

By: José Lucas Pérez Lloréns(Author), Ignacio Hernández Carrero(Author), Juan José Vergara Oñate(Author), Fernando G Brun Murillo(Author), Ángel León(Author)
352 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Editorial UCA
¿Las Algas se Comen?: Un Periplo por la Biología, la Historia, las Curiosidades y la Gastronomía [Those Curious and Delicious Seaweeds: A Fascinating Voyage from Biology to Gastronomy]
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  • ¿Las Algas se Comen?: Un Periplo por la Biología, la Historia, las Curiosidades y la Gastronomía [Those Curious and Delicious Seaweeds: A Fascinating Voyage from Biology to Gastronomy] ISBN: 9788498285673 Paperback May 2018 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
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Language: Spanish

The "blue planet", Earth, with three quarters of its surface covered by oceans and seas, remains unexplored and undiscovered. This has relegated many marine species to undeserved exclusion, disregard or even contempt. A clear example of this is the seaweeds – "sea vegetables", as they are called in the media for their similarity to their land counterparts – a marine flora of great variety in size, shape and colour, with little awareness of their applications dating back to the dawn of civilization. They have been used in the East mainly as medicines and food, and have been venerated there for millennia. In the West, on the other hand, they have been reviled for their historical link to times of hunger and hardship, a view that fortunately has been changing in recent times. They are now on the menu in many restaurants and homes, thanks to their organoleptic and nutritional properties. The use of seaweeds for food is the main axis around which the different chapters in this book revolve and interlock.

Summary in Spanish:
El «planeta azul», la Tierra, cubierta por océanos y mares en sus tres cuartas partes, sigue estando inexplorado e ignoto. Esta circunstancia, favorecedora de mitos y leyendas, ha relegado a muchas especies marinas a un ostracismo inmerecido, al menosprecio o al desdén. Un claro ejemplo de ello son las algas—«verduras de mar», como las denominan los medios por su similitud con sus congéneres terrestres—, una flora marina de gran variedad de tamaños, formas y colores, con aplicaciones poco conocidas, que se remontan a los albores de la civilización. De ellas destaca el uso medicinal y culinario dado en Oriente, a las que se veneran desde hace milenios. Por el contrario, en Occidente, se han denostado por vincularse históricamente con épocas de hambre y penuria. Una visión que, afortunadamente, está cambiando en los últimos tiempos, donde muchos restaurantes y hogares las incluyen en sus menús aprovechando sus propiedades organolépticas y nutricionales. Un uso culinario de las algas que ya abordamos en nuestro anterior libro Flora marina del litoral gaditano. Biología, ecología, usos y guía de identificación (ganador del XVI Premio Nacional de Edición Universitaria de 2012), y que ahora retomamos esta vez dirigiéndonos a un público lector mucho más amplio y acompañados de Ángel León, el Chef del Mar, y otros 16 chefs de reconocido prestigio internacional, quienes nos ofrecen sus recetas, verdaderas obras de arte, que tienen a las algas como un ingrediente fundamental.

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By: José Lucas Pérez Lloréns(Author), Ignacio Hernández Carrero(Author), Juan José Vergara Oñate(Author), Fernando G Brun Murillo(Author), Ángel León(Author)
352 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Editorial UCA
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