Todo Bicho Que Camina... (Colección Beas prática)

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Summary: Humor, sociology and cuisine all in one. Delightful!
Review: I got this assuming it was a cookbook. I wanted its recipe for its chimichurri. The chimichurri was great, but it turned out to be a wonderfully humorous, lighthearted book about cooking and eating, Argentine style.

Argentines dedicate their lives to the asado, a ritual that involves steak, chicken, sausages and animal parts that Americans would not eat even if they were in sausages. They are purists, true to their gaucho heritage: build the BBQ out of rock or brick, fuel it with wood and use iron as necessary to hold the meat. Sagel's disparaging comments on American techniques like briquettes, starter fluid and gas grills are riotous.

It is about five years since I read this. I'm ordering more copies to give to my middle school Spanish class. They'll love it.