Spanish Culture Research Paper

For this project, I chose to examine Spanish culture because I’ve always heard about how rich of a culture it is and I think its interesting to be able to compare it to other European cultures. Since they’re all so close together its amazing how diverse each country is even when you consider the similarities each has to another. The staple foods of Spain include olives and potato omelets. Their core foods consist of eggs, lamb, poultry, pork, and salted or dried fish. They also eat a lot of sausages and serrano ham; these are considered primary foods. For secondary foods they have rice, chicken, seafood, and various vegetables. For peripheral foods, there’s chickpeas and crusty bread. Spain’s flavor principle consists of garlic, tomatoes,