Josep Lladonosa i Giró is a Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 chef and food-writer. He has been chef of the charming and celebre restaurant Set Portes in Barcelone for fifty years. During this time he has also done a big research about cooking (techniques, products and recipes) and gastronomy (culture about or tied to eating) in Catalonia

Catalan cuisine

Catalan cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Roussillon and Andorra, which has a similar cuisine to the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya comarques, often referred to as "Catalan mountain cuisine"...

, which he has documented since the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

 (as for example in his book Libre de Sent Soví) and he has diffused it in a large amount of books and articles. Some of them have been translated in some languages as Spanish, English, French, etc. He is a famous gastronomy teacher as well. He has collaborated with people as Joan Amades

Joan Amades

Joan Amades i Gelats , was an eminent Catalan ethnologist and folklorist. An autodidact, he worked at the historical archive of the city of Barcelona and at the Museum of Industry and Popular Arts of the same city. From 1956 onwards he collaborated with UNESCO...

 or Jaume Fàbrega

Jaume Fàbrega

Jaume Fàbrega is a Catalan gastronomy writer, journalist, historian and professor at some universities. He has written more than fifty gastronomy and cooking books, he has won five times the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and he has made Ferran Adrià known over the world as a Catalan chef...

. In 2003 he won the highest Catalan honneur given by the Generalitat de Catalunya

Generalitat de Catalunya

The Generalitat of Catalonia is the institution under which the autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia....

, the Creu de Sant Jordi

Creu de Sant Jordi

The Creu de Sant Jordi is the highest civil distinction awarded in Catalonia . It was established by the Generalitat de Catalunya autonomous government by virtue of the Decret 457/1981 de 18 de desembre in 1981.. The medal was designed by goldsmith Joaquim Capdevila.-Recipients:*List of...

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Some of his publications

• Invasions i intents d'integració de la Vall d'Aran a França ISBN 84-232-0616-5
• La cuina de Catalunya ISBN 84-474-0817-5
• La cuina medieval catalana ISBN 84-7222-148-2
• La cuina catalana d'ahir i d'avui ISBN 84-8256-128-6
• El llibre de les sopes ISBN 84-95907-22-4
• El gran llibre de la caça ISBN 84-9787-155-3
• The book of the Catalan Kitchen ISBN 84-206-0354-6
• La cuina que torna (1982) ISBN 84-7596-557-1
• La cocina medieval (1984) ISBN 84-7222-096-6
• Cocina de ayer, delicias de hoy (1989) ISBN 84-7222-418-X, ISBN 978-84-7222-418-6
• El gran libro de la cocina catalana (1991) ISBN 84-8307-347-1
• El llibre del guisats i les picades (1995) ISBN 84-7596-474-5
• El libro de los arroces (1996) ISBN 84-8307-050-2
• La cuina catalana més antiga (1998) ISBN 84-7596-628-4
• La cuina de dos grans mestres (2000) ISBN 84-7596-727-2
• Cocina catalana. Cocina regional (2000) ISBN 84-03-59421-6, ISBN 978-84-03-59421-0
• The Book of Paellas: All the rice dishes at the famous restaurante "Set Portes" of Barcelona and others, seasoned with the gastronomical wisdom of its master chef (2000) ISBN 84-607-0369-X
• Livre des paellas: tous les riz du célebre restaurant "Set Portes" de Barcelone concoctés par son chef cuisinier, theoricien de la gastronomie (2001) ISBN 84-932096-0-0
• L'escudella (2002) ISBN 84-95559-69-2
• The Great Sweet Fruit Book. Cultivation, History And Cooking (2002) ISBN 84-9743-039-5
• Plats amb història: Vivències i opinions (2003) ISBN 84-7596-240-8
• La cuina ecològica (2004) ISBN 978-84-9779-165-6
• La cuina tradicional catalana a l'abast (2005) ISBN 978-84-664-0666-6
• Cent plats amb fruita (2006) ISBN 978-84-9779-382-7
• La cuina de les terres de Lleida (2006) ISBN 978-84-664-0710-6