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Spanish tapas comes from the tapar verb, meaning "cover", and the noun tapa means the lid. The origin of Tapas has a
variety of statements.
According to the book "The Joy of Cooking" in the United States, Tapas was the first piece of bread or
meat. Andalusians during the sip of each Sherry wine, the snacks will be used as a lid, with it to cover
the wine cup to prevent the sweetness of wine provoke fruit flies. The traditional meaning of the
Tapas is usually safer Iberian ham or jiao lizo (red pepper sausage). So the bar hospitality or pub owner
gradually developed a variety of other snacks with sherry to promote the sales of wine.
One of the legends of the spread of the local people in Spain is that this custom originated in the medieval period of
King Alfonso X of Castilian. He had a sick, the doctor out of drinking a lot of red wine as a prescription. Alfonso to avoid
drunkenness, accompanied by drinking a lot of snacks. When he recovered, he ordered all the pubs in the kingdom to
sell alcoholic beverages with a small amount of food.
Another folk legend is: the Spanish king Felipe III in order to control the soldiers and sailors increasingly serious
alcoholism, issued a decree to let the bistro in the sale of alcohol, must be presented under the wine.
There is also a folk legend is that the Spanish king Alfonso XIII in the visit to Cádiz, because the local sea and sand, the
pub owner on the wine covered with ham and said, "This is your wine and a" lid ". The king therefore remembered the
"lid" of the wine.
Tapas also developed with the development of the Spanish diet. After the discovery of the New World in Europe,
tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes and so began to spread to Europe, have become the Tapas cooking materials. Today
there are Tapas cooking competitions all over Spain, and even have a national game.