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Spanish cuisine (Spanish: Cocina española) consists of the traditions and practices of Spanish cooking. It features considerable regional diversity, with significant differences among the traditions of each of Spain's regional cuisines. Olive oil (of which Spain is the world's largest producer) is extensively used in Spanish cuisine.
Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history , which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.
Paella (/ p aɪ ˈ ɛ l ə /, [1] / p ɑː ˈ eɪ j ə /, [2] py-EL-ə, pah-AY-yə, Valencian:; Spanish:) is a rice dish originally from the Valencian Community. Paella is regarded as one of the community's identifying symbols. [3] [4] It is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine.
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Spain has a long history of tension between centralism and nationalism. The current organisation of the state into autonomous communities (similar to a federal organization) under the Spanish Constitution of 1978 is intended as a way to incorporate these communities into the state. Expressions of Basque, Spanish, Catalan and Galician nationalisms
The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. Arts flourished despite the decline of the empire in the 17th century.
a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine. Botillo: Province of León: meat is a dish of meat-stuffed pork intestine. It is a culinary specialty of El Bierzo, a northern county in the Spanish province of León. Cecina: Castilian-Leonese cuisine Province of León: meat
Mexican cuisine [7] is a complex and ancient cuisine, with techniques and skills developed over thousands of years of history. [8] It is created mostly with ingredients native to Mexico, as well as those brought over by the Spanish conquistadors , with some new influences since then.