A Late Dinner is a vivid evocative and often humour journey through Spain and Spanish cuisine. Richardson depicts the dramatic changes that have gripped Spanish life over the last quarter century and explores the extremes of culture and food from the rustic to the avant-garde. A Late Dinner takes readers from the typical coastal cuisine most associated with Spain to the traditional shepherd cooking of the mountains to the cities of Madrid Barcelona and Seville where creativity and innovation are now setting the trend for modern cuisine across the globe. Richardson traces the roots of Spanish cooking to the landscape the people and the history of this beautiful and complex country.