Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook [Hardcover]

Samuel Clark (Author), Samantha Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 4, 2005

In their first outing, The Moro Cookbook, Samuel and Samantha Clark—chef-owners of Moro, one of London’s most talked-about restaurants—captivated readers with their passionate insights into the culinary traditions of Spain, North Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Casa Moro, their second cookbook, is a very personal reflection on the Clarks’ culinary influences. With its heady blend of Arabic and Hispanic dishes, the book evokes their early travels, their first discovery of Spain and Morocco, and the small village in the heart of Moorish Andalusia that has become their second home. The recipes range from infinitely variable mezzes and tapas to the slow-cooked meat stews and fresh salads of Morocco, but this is much more than a collection of recipes. Casa Moro is a culinary journey, resonating with history, tradition, and delectable dishes.

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“Moro is to Spanish food what the River Café is to Italian.”
–Nigella Lawson

About the Author

Samuel and Samantha Clark, who are husband and wife, share a passion for the Moorish regions. They both cooked at leading London restaurants before joining forces to open Moro restaurant in 1997.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Ebury Press; First Edition edition (July 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0091894492
• ISBN-13: 978-0091894498
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 1.2 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars casa moro: beyond claudia roden, February 12, 2007

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J. Komen "hans komen" (netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook (Hardcover)

For those who are familiar with the books of claudia roden and penelope casas on middle eastern food and spanish food, this book has definitely a few new things to offer. The recipees are basic, with few ingredients, emphasis on good taste and relatively simple to prepare. Do not expect elaborate "Michelin restaurant" style type dishes. The authors like spiced (not hot)food, so if you like that too, then stock up on your cumin, coriander and paprika, and start pickling your own lemons.
The book starts with a curious chapter on dishes prepared with wild ingredients (herbs) from the area in spain where the authors live (Andalucia). The four seasons are each presented with 2-3 dishes. While it is apparently meant to set the scene, I found this chapter a bit out of place and too much "Jamie Oliver" with pictures of happy family and tales of friendly neighbours; the dishes are sometimes less easy to prepare with the ingredients listed. What follows is a short chapter on bread which i did not find particularly intersting. Despite the encouriging remarks of the authors, (it only takes 10 minutes!) making bread by hand the classic way takes time, is messy, and the results is always a bit disappointing.
The next chapters on soups and on mezze and starters however is very good with many good recipees. Other chapters are on slads, fish, meat and vegetables (!). The meat chapter has 6 nice lamb, 2 pork, 2 beef and 4 chicken recipees. They are rather classic (roast lamb, sirloin steak) but again of good taste. However, you will find a much wider selection in both Roden or Casas. The authors admit that they only recently started to get interested in desserts, and the book therefore is relatively short on this item, with a few good cakes, ice and fruit desserts. In conclusion: its not a real restaurant book with complete menu suggestions, and it has frequent accounts of personal life and travels (it is a bit romantic, organic and jamie oliver style), but the few recipies i have tried so far where easy to prepare and tasted very much oke: 4 stars..
One last remark to the publisher: the list of suppliers and reference to particular brands of flower is usefull for UK readers but of no use to readers outside the UK. Would it be a better idea to include websites of suppliers in europe and USA where foodstuff can be ordered?

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, March 27, 2007

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Sam Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book, however many of the ingredients are very hard if not impossible to find. If you don't have access to a Spanish cooking supply shop, I would pass on this book. In addition, some of the recipes need a bit of work. I've tried several soup recipes and all of them were lacking in flavor and needed additional work to repair.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moro Magic, November 22, 2009

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Bulgakov (Seattle,WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook (Hardcover)

This book is SO inspiring. We use this book more than any other. Moro really inspires us to challenge our taste-buds and when we have people over for dinner they always want to know where we got the ideas.