World of food and wine looks at a fascinating variety of customs
and traditions in different countries across the globe,
describing how the world cooks, eats, and drinks. Food in Spain
Food in Spain is a fiesta of colors and flavors. The fusion of
tradition and innovation found now in Spanish cuisine has
propelled it to the forefront, pushed into the culinary
stratosphere. Spain has become a center of casual, absolutely
modern Mediterranean cooking, superbly simple, yet embedded with
a shocking inventiveness. Spanish cuisine is where modern chefs
from all over the world look for inspiration these days. Black
rice, squid paella. The black color is due to the squid's ink;
delicious, even though it might not look the part. Spaniards
have always been in love with food. They adore eating out. They
revel in the light, fresh, artistic and modern style of the
restaurants, revolutionary yet solidly grounded in traditional
cooking; but they can also walk their way through an array of
"tapas" bars, each one boasting the