Word: puchero
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece of cookery, this gargantuan dish, a rustic circle of savors where each flavor suffers an elision in the interest of the whole, when cooked...
...puchero recipe of Chef Juan Nieto* of Manhattan's Spanish Restaurant El Chico: Spanish peas (garbanzos), cabbage, potatoes, one fowl, beef (1 to 2 lb.), ham (cubed, about ½lb.), spanish sausage (chorizos), lare onion, tomato, pinch of saffron, salt & pepper. Boil slowly for two hours. Serve fowl, beef, ham and sausage on separate platter, garnished with vegetables. Serve broth separately...
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