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Quelques jours en Espagne
John Lemoinne
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Garlic and Spanish cooking in an 1858 French travel essay
An 1858 French-language travel essay on Spain says that Spanish cooking has a local colour, that of saffron, and a local scent: garlic and oil that smells of its fruit.
A foreign visitor's general, somewhat disparaging remark on Spanish cooking, published in 1858; it names no particular place, household or dish, and says nothing about how Spanish cooking smells today.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).
- Quelques jours en Espagne, p. 425 Printed page 425 is image 429 of the digitised volume (the catalogue's page list numbers image 9 as page 5).
Time described: 1858. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-03.
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