1. By: Josefina Coggan Andres Herrera Bruno Olivera Nicolas Vandam
SPAIN
By: Josefina Coggan
Andres Herrera
Bruno Olivera
Nicolas Vandam

2. Index Index Introduction Food ingredients Country’s Culture
Food Specialties
Traditional Clothes
Traditional Music
Religion
Ways of serving food

3. Introduction
Spanish cooking has popular roots. It is the people’s cuisine. Is uncomplicated food, based on the ingredients available locally or the crops grown regionally. Mountains run through Spain in several directions, acting as natural barriers to communication and making transportation difficult.
Many dishes are prepared today using the same cooking methods and ingredients as they were two or three hundred years ago. Other dishes sprung up from European and American influences and were adapted to the Spanish taste.

4. Special food ingredients
Spain has a very good variety of meals and ingredients
but some are very common and they are used in every
food.
 Vinegar: it's made with white or red wine and it's essential in many dishes, included soups.
Garlic: it's a fundamental ingredient. It is very often used fresh and it's prepared in this way: peel the garlic clove and place it on the cutting board; sprinkle with salt and crush it with the end of a knife. You obtain a paste.
Chorizo: it's a spicy, coarse-grained salami well known all over the Spain. If you don't find it you can susbstitute it with an Italian salami with the same characteristics.
Onions: another typical ingredient. In Spain the red variety is prefered because it's sweet and it can eaten raw in the salads.

5. More ingredients…
Almonds: they are used very much in Spanish cuisine, in the sweet as well as in the salt dishes. They are often powdered and used as a flour.
Olive oil: it's a typical Mediterranean ingredient. The Spain is one of the first producer in the world together with Italy.
Paprika: it's very used in Spanish dishes. It derives from a particular variety of sweet peppers cultivated all over Europe. You can find sweet or spicy paprika.
Peppers: they are essential in samfaina, gazpacho, paella and in many other dishes. You can use them raw or peeled after grilling them.
Tomatoes: they are the basic ingredient of a lot of Spanish dishes. You can use them raw or cooked. If you don't find fresh tomatoes, you can substitute them with canned peeled tomatoes.
Tapas: they are the typical Spanish appetizers. You have to eat them slowly and with other people. They can start a meal or substitute a meal when they are a lot.

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7. Country’s Culture
The art world in the early 20th century was influenced by a remarkable group of Spanish artists: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí, ambassadors of the artistic culture in Spain.
Another example of Spanish culture is the invention of the Spanish guitar, which was invented in Andalusia in the 1790's when a sixth string was added to the Moorish lute.
Spanish culture is widely known for flamenco music and dance, bullfights , fantastic beaches and lots of sunshine.

8. Food Specialties
Popular foods are cheeses, eggs, beans, rice, nuts , paella, fish, and bread. Olive oil and garlic are common ingredients. Spain is also known for its wines

9. Traditional Clothes
Spain is the birthplace of the most widely recognizable traditional costume from Spain. As the Spanish culture spread across the world, particularly to North and South America, cultural symbols of Spain like flamenco dancing and bullfighting, were identified with certain Spanish clothing. Ruffled dresses and dashing embroidered jackets became symbolic of the country of Spain. While Spanish people would wear clothing that is more subdued for work, festivals, religious holidays and other celebrations called for their finest clothing.

10. Women clothing Spanish Woman:
Women's clothing from the southern provinces of Spain was bright and very feminine. Vibrant colored costumes with layers are characteristic for dresses and skirts in this region. Floral patterns and polka dots were favorite patterns for Spanish women. Bodices were tight and sleeves usually consisted of layers of ruffles. Flamenco dancers wore a stylized version of these dresses as early as the 16th century.
Most women would also wear a delicate shawl or a more substantial shawl both designed with colorful threads. To complete the outfit, Spanish women wore high decorative combs, often covering the comb to act as a veil. Even today, modern Spanish women may have a mantilla, veil, to attend a religious service.

11. men clothing
The traditional men's dress of Spain reflects the style of the bandoleros (outlaws) and vaqueros, (cowboys). The high waisted pants compliment a short jacket (traje corto). These were linked together by a wide colored scarf at the waist. Men would generally wear a white ruffled shirt underneath the jacket. The bandoleros wore a red bandanna around the head, while vaqueros wore wide hats (sombrero de alanche).

12. Children clothing
Children wore clothing that was the miniature versions of their parents. Girl's dresses were also brightly colored and formal occasions, especially religious ceremonies, called for tiny mantillas. Boys in Andalusia wore the short jackets, but the material was usually black or brown and featured less embroidery. Footwear would have been leather slippers or shoes for girls and boots for boys.

13. Traditional Music
The music of Spain is a fundamental part of culture and folklore of that country including the different styles developed in different historical periods, from the first cultural events leading up to the very existence of Spain as a state, to art and products entertainment industry today.

14. Religion
Spain has no official religion because the constitution of 1978 disestablished the Roman Catholic Church as the official state religion
According to the National Institute of Statistics, 73.2% of the population are Catholic, 2.3% belong to another religion, 14.6% are agnostic, and 7.6% are atheists.

15. Ways of serving food
Even without the sunshine, the wonderful Spanish tradition of serving tapas. A fun, relaxed way to entertain friends, tapas are perfect for Sunday brunch.
Tapas are not just a particular food, but also a way of eating. Serving tapas is designed to encourage conversation rather than focusing on eating an entire meal. While it may not seem like a meal, all the different dishes mean the guests leave feeling very satisfied and happy! Just set the table with a wide selection of little dishes from which the guests can help themselves, or serve the dishes a few at a time.
Tapas can be as simple as a dish of tasty olives, slices of mature Manchego cheese, or thin slices of the Serrano ham and olives, pictured far right. The beauty of a tapas lunch is that many of the items require no cooking at all.

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Music:
Paloma San Basilio
Placido Domingo