{"id":75254,"date":"2025-05-05T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75254\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:36:04","slug":"how-a-trip-to-spain-inspired-a-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75254\/","title":{"rendered":"How a trip to Spain inspired a cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4K8HUPI_Take_Me_to_Spain_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"659\" alt=\"Image of eggplant dish and book cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Supplied: Bateman Books\n<\/p>\n<p>We all lament the end of a holiday and the return to normality &#8211; but one of my next guests found a novel way to keep the spirit of her trip alive.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Jenkins and her friend Claudia Kozub had a blast in Spain, admiring Gaudi&#8217;s architecture in Barcelona and the streets of Ibiza&#8217;s old town.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the food&#8230;. As a photographer, Mel had well documented what she saw over there.<\/p>\n<p>Her friend, food writer and stylist Jo Wilcox, was intrigued &#8211; the result is a collaboration between the pair called &#8216;Take Me to Spain&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s chock-full of the flavoursome Spanish fare &#8211; from Patatas Bravas, paellla and boiled orange and olive oil cake &#8211; to a sangria cocktail with a simple tapas side.<\/p>\n<p>They both join Kathryn to talk about why the book is a passport to the flavours and friendships of Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Supplied: Bateman Books We all lament the end of a holiday and the return to normality &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[1816,9409,2000,299,12,196,10975,10973,10974,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-75254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-public-radio","15":"tag-radio-new-zealand","16":"tag-rnz","17":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114452665918559251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}