Spain

The Creation of Spanish Cuisine

~Blog Post #1~

April 13, 2015

By: Gabby Gallo

I am choosing to do my research about Spanish food because the culture has been a big part of my life for a very long time. Since kindergarten, I have been learning Spanish, and I have been fortunate enough to have had many teachers from Spain and other spanish speaking countries. In Spain, lunch is the biggest meal of the day and some of their common types of food include paella, generally made out of potato, and they eat a lot of pork there. Lunch time is often time to meet with friends and family, especially on the weekends, and is usually followed by a siesta shortly after. Spain is mostly surrounded by water, due to its location on the Iberian peninsula, which is how their diet became to be heavily influenced by seafood. Spain is a very fertile area, so there are many fresh markets containing a large variety of fresh products. Many different cultures have influenced and contributed to Spanish food, but the North African Moors had the greatest impact by introducing many fresh fruits, vegetables and seasonings combined with many seafood and meats to the Spanish diet. America also had an impact in Spain, after Columbus returned home from his discovery with different products such as vanilla, chocolate, different types of beans, tomatoes, and potatoes. Although Spanish cuisine is well known as being independent, it has been greatly influenced by other cultures in the process of becoming its own.

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