Spanish food without tomatoes and chilli? 14th-century cookbook shows you how

Recipes for offal and spice-heavy dishes in Book of Sent Sovi show how transatlantic travel reshaped cuisine

Forget gazpacho, patatas bravas or the tang of paprika in your chorizo. Such dishes may be considered staples of the Mediterranean diet but a new exhibition celebrating Spain's oldest surviving cookbook suggests medieval Spanish cuisine was nothing like its modern successor.

Dating from 1324, almost 170 years before Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas and sparked a new transatlantic trade in foodstuffs, the Book of Sent Sovi is a collection of 72 recipes written in Catalan by an unknown author.