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Hi I'm chef Rainer Wickel and I'm here today with Expert Village.com, well today we're
going to be making traditional Spanish Tapas and believe me these are really good. I actually
lived in Spain for a while, I lived in a town called Saragosa and I ate all sorts of these
and I also learned how to make a quit of few of them and there really, really good. Tapas
aren't a main meal, Tapas are basic finger foods that you eat in between meals and in
Spain you usually don't eat dinner until pass 10:00 so you really need something to hold
you over in between lunch and dinner. And this is where Tapas come in, Tapas actually
originated this is the theory on it was originated from the king Alfonso in Spain, and what they
said was that he had some kind of sickness to where he could only drink wine and east
small meals and he enjoyed doing this so much that he decided to make it a rule and he was
basically in Castillo. And he made this a rule throughout Castillo that people had to
make Tapas. And they did this pretty much for the poor people spainards liked to drink
wine and the problem was is a lot of times they only drink wine on empty stomachs and
that was not really productive as far as working in the fields or doing there jobs so it was
really good for them to eat something while they we're drinking the wine and this traditionally
Tapas are used to eat you usually eat wine when you eat Tapas. Now Tapas can be served
between breakfast and lunch or between lunch and dinner it's usually between lunch and
dinner because there's such a long period in between because once again the spainards
don't eat to late. The particular Tapas recipes that I'm going to be sharing with you today
are 3 really good ones. And there pretty common in Spain. The first one that we're going to
be doing is called gambas al ajillo and it's basically garlic shrimp and this is really
good, its fried in olive oil in a cast iron skillet it's actually served that way with
bread for dipping and this is really, really tasty. The second one is common you'll probably
find this in every Spanish restaurant every Spanish bar and it's called tortilla de patatas.
An what it is, it's potatoe omelet and they make it into a big omelet and cut it up and
it's usually not warmed they'll have it on a plate right there and then you can eat it's
you kind of eat it like a pie. The third one is from the Northern region of Spain and it's
a special way of making chorizo. And the way that you cook this chorizo is really, really
good and you slice it up and put it on bread and that's the way that's served. Now once
again there are multitude of Tapaps recipes and I'm just going to be sharing three of
them with you today and we're going to have some fun. But this is the history of Tapas
and now let's go ahead and start making them.