Spanish Recipes – What A Wonderfully Tasty Cuisine
Spain is country with a varied and complicated heritage and Spanish cooking displays this fact. While Spain is a Mediterranean country, and a lot of Spanish dishes owe much to this, Spanish food also features native foods imported into the country from Spain’s former ex-colonies in the New World such as beans, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes. Other Spanish recipes draw on the country’s Jewish and Moorish heritage – it is worth remembering that much of Spain was governed by the Moors for more than 7 hundred years. Even the Reconquista (the Christian reconquest of the Iberian pennisula from Muslims) has left its traces in Spanish cuisine – pork is popular in Spain, and traditionally was a political statement of Christian identity because it wasn’t eaten by Jews or Muslims.