Nakisa

Hot weather and sweetness of sherry offer flies a pleasant dive into sherry glass pools. Depriving flies, people started to lid the glass with a piece of bread or Chorizo. Adding insult to injury, bartenders tried to make lids more and more delicious. To guarantee triumph in the battle against the flies, they invited all the incomers to their homeland throughout the country's history, to make a contribution: Romans brought olives, Moors added almonds, citrus fruits and spices. The discovery of the new world brought back home new flavours and ingredients: sweet and chili peppers and potato and more importantly tomatoes. Slowly the lid changed to side dish. Depending on the wealth of supply of bar and closeness to see, sea foods had the honour to play a role in the front line. According to unwritten history, bartenders won the battle and the trophy is called tapas which means lid.

Evenings when the streets are still warm from the day's sunshine, arrows and rows of tables outside of bars and bunch of chairs are the most warm welcoming host to taste the cornerstone ingredient of tapas; sound of chat and laughs of Spaniards who are enjoying themselves. Sitting in a bar and listening to hubbub in an Andulican restaurant, I was thinking could Tapas would be born in a country where people do not have a huge tendency to chat and love to go from one bar to another for the sake of eating and speaking?!