A short guide to Tango and Cookery E-Book

Lucienne Delamarque

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

This booklet wants to be a friendly suggestion to a possible distracted companion or a small reminder for oneself, without any pretense as the title already shows. You can read it on a train while traveling or on a cot bathed in sunlight or even for a couple of minutes right before sleeping. It's the result of the author's wonderful experience in approaching and discovering Tango, the simple and colloquial attempt to demonstrate that even people who are apparently less suitable for dancing can have their moments of joy and satisfaction. Nil impossibile volenti.

Leseprobe

Contents

Introduction to why and why not

Before you start

Why tango?

RECIPE # 1 – ANCHOVY RAVIOLI

The ABCs (for him)

Let's walk... but like tango dancers

RECIPE # 2 – (single dish) – HERB AND CHEESE OMELETTE

Him and Her

A few tricks

RECIPE # 3 – (second course) – LEMON TURKEY

The embrace

Let's prepare (mentally) to go out

RECIPE # 4 – (second course) – VEAL FILLET WITH CREAM

The walk

The basic step and the elementary steps

Some notes on music and time

RECIPE # 5 – (single dish) – SIMPLE AUBERGINES WITH PARMESAN

Where it comes from

Eight

Classic eight

Ocho cortado

RECIPE # 6 – (summer pasta) – PASTA SALAD WITH MELON

Change in front

Change in front

Good manners

RECIPE # 7 – (sweet) CANTUCCI BISCUITS WITH VIN SANTO

Turn

Left turn

Right turn

RECIPE # 8 – (side dish) – BAKED PUMPKIN FLOWERS

The sandwich (but it's not a recipe)

Great orchestras and great dancers

RECIPE # 9 – (sweet) – CHEESE, PEPPER and MINT

Elements of milonga

RECIPE # 10 – (fish) – COD WITH OLIVES

Farewell

Lucienne Delamarque

A Short Guide

Title | A short guide to Tango and Cookery

Author | Lucienne Delamarque

ISBN | 9791220302111

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To a teacher who, without knowing it, was a great friend. To those who think they can't but simply don't know how. To the great love that will come.

Introduction to why and why not

This short guide talks about tango and cookery.

It doesn't do it exhaustively because there would be neither space nor authorial ability to do so: can an immense world be described with a simple ballpoint pen? The reader would expect at least the unveiling of a thousand luxuriant commonalities and promiscuities between these two apparently different worlds, like any good self-respecting trans-avant-garde intellectual. Well, you'll be disappointed once again! Or for it to talk of the history and psychology of tango and describe exotic uses and customs for a high-profile cuisine whose real appetite lies not in the throat but in the intellect. Not this either. Let's leave it to the thousand sensationalist cooking programmes: just turn on the TV to find one. So why a booklet like this? What's the purpose? For those like me who until recently abstained completely from dancing (and therefore certainly not masters of dance nor unfortunately the kitchen, let alone life!), it was a challenge. After trying and trying again, overcoming frustrations and fears, I developed a conviction: I believe that even the clumsiest person – a category I truly fall into – can dance. Memento: Nil impossibile volenti.

You probably won't become a Geraldine Rojas or a Miguel Angel Zotto, but you'll be able to dance and thereby discover that playful-social-sentimental dimension found in tango. For us klutzes who can't immediately catch the rapid flow of a step taken by the great artists and reproduce it on the fly, I think it may be useful to have even a modest theoretical smattering, low-level but sincere, to begin breathing an atmosphere which, I assure you, will captivate you more and more.