The book is a collection of family sayings and recipes. The Coello family were exiled by the Spanish Civil War, they fought on the Republican side, and they kept the spirit of home alive with food and language.
The book cover for Recetas y Refranes has been completed by Sarah Godsill. It is a five-colour suicide print, sometimes more prosaically known as a reduction print. The block is destroyed in the process if making the print.