A taste of Barcelona. Meet writers H. Rosi Song and Anna Riera

Instituto Cervantes launch A taste of Barcelona. The history of Catalan cooking and eating by H. Rosi Song and Anna Riera. An online event where the writers will chat about Barcelona's urban and culinary development from the Middle Ages to the present, tracing the origins and the growth of the culinary prestige of the city. 

Rosi Song is Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College and author of Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain (2016), and co-editor of the volumes Traces of Contamination: Unearthing Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse (2005) and Towards a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future (2013). She has published widely on contemporary Spanish culture, film and literature. Her frequent trips to Barcelona over almost two decades have shaped her appreciation and knowledge of Catalan culture and its gastronomic traditions.

Anna Riera teaches Food Studies at Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, where she started the graduate programme in Gastronomic and Oenological Communication, the first of its kind in Spain. She lectures on Food & Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona. Informed by her travels in South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, she has examined the close relationship between landscape and local food culture. She shared these experiences in her radio program Cuina'm in Onda Cero Catalunya (2006-08). A frequent speaker at gastronomy conferences in Spain, she is a writer for and member of the management staff of the magazine supplement Gourmets published by El Periódico de Catalunya.