Editing Catalan cuisine (section)

==Alternative views==
Some Catalan authors, such as [[Josep Pla]],<ref name=Pla>PLA, Josep, 1970, 'El Que hem menjat', Barcelona (Catalonia)) (this edition 1997 Premsa catalana); photographs by F. Català Roca were added for the edition of 1981 by Edicions Destino, Barcelona.</ref> [[Jaume Fàbrega]]<ref name=fabrega>[http://www.gastroteca.cat/ca/noticies/fitxa-entrevistes/jaume_fabrega:__la_cuina_catalana_es_la_mes_antiga_d_europa_/ Gastroteca.cat Interview with Jaume Fàbrega]</ref> or Eliana Thibaut i Comalada,<ref>THIBAUT I COMALADA, Eliana, 2001, 'La Cuina dels Països Catalans, reflex d'una societat', Editorial Pòrtic, S.A. {{ISBN|978-84-7306-716-4}}</ref> and others like [[Colman Andrews]],<ref name=andrews>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-K_ekX6BVXsC&q=Catalan+cuisine ANDREWS, Colman, ''Catalan cuisine'' pp. 3-4: "It is, to put it another way, the cooking of the region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain - and, by extension, of the historically and linguistically related ''països catalans'' or Catalan lands.."]</ref> have suggested that, besides Catalonia proper, this cuisine takes in the Balearic and Valencian cuisines,<ref name=Fabrega>[http://www.llibreriaona.com/llibres/C/CUINA-DELS-PAISOS-CATALANS,-LA--REFLEX-D'UNA-SOCIETAT-,978-84-7306-716-4.htm gastronomy of the Catalan-speaking Countries: Jaume Fàbrega:"Belonging to the nation of Catalans Valencians and Balearics is not just a question of a common language: it is also a way of expressing that culture at table, of a culinary culture."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011210956/http://www.llibreriaona.com/llibres/C/CUINA-DELS-PAISOS-CATALANS%2C-LA--REFLEX-D%27UNA-SOCIETAT-%2C978-84-7306-716-4.htm |date=11 October 2008 }}</ref> but this opinion is challenged as politicised, and is not widespread, nor is it supported by either the [[Govern de les Illes Balears|Balearic]] or the [[Generalitat Valenciana|Valencian government]],<ref>[http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/gastronomia/gastro1.htm gastronomy from the Valencian Community] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509174759/http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/gastronomia/gastro1.htm |date=9 May 2008 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/descargas/gastronomia_in.pdf Gastronomy of the Valencian Community] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509161210/http://www.comunitatvalenciana.com/descargas/gastronomia_in.pdf |date=9 May 2008 }}</ref> while the Catalan government itself provides divergent points of view.<ref>[http://www.gencat.cat/catalunya/cat/coneixer-gastronomia.htm Generalitat de Catalunya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514054637/http://www.gencat.cat/catalunya/cat/coneixer-gastronomia.htm |date=14 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>[http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/culturacatalana/menuitem.0b9b63f2f0392d88f94a9710b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=94b1ef2126896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=94b1ef2126896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD Culturcat] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106172418/http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/culturacatalana/menuitem.0b9b63f2f0392d88f94a9710b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=94b1ef2126896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=94b1ef2126896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD |date=6 January 2014 }}</ref> In any case, mutual ties do exist between Catalan gastronomy and other western Mediterranean gastronomies, such as [[Balearic cuisine]], [[Valencian cuisine]], [[French cuisine#Roussillon • Languedoc • Cévennes|Southern French cuisine]], [[Aragonese cuisine]] or Murcian cuisine.