This book brings together the best dishes that the famous Catalan cooker Ada Parellada considers essential at Catalan mealtimes. A good escudella soup, a delicious veal-based fricandó stew or some crema catalana custard desserts must be part of our diet and so Ada gives us their recipes. For gourmets, she recommends the best restaurant for eating these meals. If you love good Catalan cuisine, this is your book.
After his great success solving the problem of children’s insomnia, Doctor Eduard Estivill wondered whether his method would also be useful to solve children’s eating problems. He asked a pedagogue, Montse Domènech, for help, and together they developed a simple practical method based on scientific facts. Domènech and Estivill’s method teaches children to eat varied and complete meals properly. After three years of having used this method with a 98 per cent success rate, Montse Domènech has finally decided to publish this entertaining book to help parents teach their children how to eat properly.
A number of specialised shops, hundreds of quirky bars, exclusive associations and surprising personalities are hidden in Barcelona. For those who want to enjoy the city full-on, these peoples and places are a must. Writer and journalist Francesc Miralles got on his bike and cycled around Barcelona in search for an atypical Barcelona. The result is a book of 73 extraordinary places all over the Catalan capital, which you won’t find in other guidebooks. Miralles’s graphic descriptions of the quirky places and people he has found and interviewed, are written with a touch of humour and accompanied by photographs, taken with the author’s old Russian camera. Francesc Miralles has entered some of the most popular and clandestine places the city has to offer and revealed another hidden face.
Is there a formula that transforms our children into model adolescents? How can we instil strong moral values? Where are the limits? What should we do in an emergency?
This manual offers answers to these and other questions which parents ask themselves when their children enter the adolescent stage. The aim of this book is to turn education into an adventure full of love, breakthroughs and fulfilment.
Montserrat Domènech and Dr. Eduard Estivill suggest practical solutions to puberty conflicts based on affection, mutual understanding and common sense, basic ingredients for a healthy relationship with our children.
Some of the themes included are: common problems between parents and children; school, friendships and sexual initiation; adolescents’ most common disorders; self-evaluation tests to detect problems; and several examples and case studies.
Silvia is a journalist with a disorganized and stressed life, and is constantly putting on weight so her doctor recommends her to go to a health spa to enjoy its tranquility and good food. The doctor is right because Sílvia achieves her therapeutic goals and, besides, writes a chronicle as a personal diary, this book, telling her experience in the Teocrates Club. 12 cenas para sentirse mejor is a good book for those who want to shed a few kilos in a healthy way and keep on enjoying food. In this book, there is also useful information that Sílvia learned in the spa, specially a dietetics lessons. Because of that, 12 cenas para sentirse mejor is a practical and funny text which depicts the rhythm of life followed by many people who never practice sports, travel constantly and are addicted to restaurants. This way to live, typical in the big cities, our way, can gain quality if we take the advices of doctor Magda Carlas from time to time, and then we go to places where we are forced to be healthy, practice exercise, relax and, above all, to eat conveniently.