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Make sure you stock it with the essentials! Top 5 Spanish kitchen essentials 1. Mortar and pestle One of the most rudimentary utensils out there, the mortar and pestle hold an important place in the Spanish kitchen. Sometimes you just need to keep it old school.
Paella is traditionally served directly from the paellera. Sign up for our newsletter full of travel tips and receive our guide to eating in Barcelona! Keep Devouring. Andreu says. Miriam says. Johnny Shi says. Amanda says. Belen says. Connie says. It has also been suggested that Greek daktylos , "date," is not the same word as daktylos , "finger," but rather an alteration of some Semitic word.
The word tapas is derived from the Spanish noun tapa , meaning "cover" or "lid. How a word for a cover became a word for a food item is uncertain, but it likely occurred in a Spanish barroom. According to one account, Spanish barkeepers began covering their customers' drinks with slices of bread or meat to keep dust or insects from entering.
Hence, the first edible tapa was a food lid. Other stories abound, but they only explain how the custom of eating hors d'oeuvres called tapas with drinks emerged—not how a word for a cover became a word for a food item. Looking at the etymology of calzone , it seems the half-moon stuffed pocket of pizza dough should be placed in a wardrobe, not an oven. Its Italian name is the singular form of calzoni , meaning "pants," which is related to the Italian word for "stocking," calza.
That word, in turn, is a descendant of Latin calceus , meaning "shoe. Since there is no hint of dough or pizza toppings in the history of calzone , it is believed that the word was chosen as a name simply because of the food's shape, which some view as resembling a pair of folded pants. One foodie, however, cooked up another idea. Perhaps the word for "pants" was selected because the food's closed form allows it to be carried about and eaten without utensils.
The calzone as a "walk-around pizza" is a great concept, but the association of pants to a food that can be conveniently carried and eaten seems half-baked.
Although the word omelet bears little resemblance to the Latin word lamina, the shape of an omelet does resemble a thin plate, which is what lamina, the source of omelet , means.
The orthographic dissimilarity between the two words is due to the various alterations that took place in both Latin and French. The Romans used the noun lamella, the diminutive form of lamina, to mean "a small metal plate. In Middle French the word alemelle became alumelle and then was altered to alumette, having been influenced by the common suffix -ette. It also acquired the additional meaning "eggs beaten and cooked without stiring until set," since such a dish resembled a thin plate or blade.
In turn, alumette was altered to amelette, and finally altered again to omelette, the form used in Modern French. The word, now usually written omelet , has been used in English since the 17th century, when an omelet was described as "a pancake of egges.
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