In the Spanish kitchen, the tortilla has a different look and meaning than in Mexican and Latin-American cuisines. While we know the tortilla as a flatbread ready to roll up with all sorts of fillings ...

Tortilla Española is one of those dishes that seems almost too simple to be memorable, and yet it rarely is. Made with little more than eggs, potatoes, olive oil and salt, it has quiet confidence ...

This past week, Neil and I had the great pleasure of visiting our daughter Rebekah in Madrid, where she is doing her semester abroad. Since arriving here in January, she has become enamored with this ...

The vagaries of a properly made Tortilla Española have plagued Gothamist for years. A thick egg based dish, a tortilla has a more robust structure than its slutty cousin, the omelet, and is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spanish food can have an intimidating simplicity. How can you make great cuisine, a chef wonders, out of such a small handful of ingredients? Few dishes in ...

The tortilla de patatas (Spanish tortilla) is a simple but tasty and versatile dish from Spain. Made with fried potatoes and eggs, you can eat it as a tapa, as a meal, in a sandwich, for breakfast. In ...

The first time I heard of shishito peppers, I was in New York standing on Sullivan Street waiting for a table at a sushi restaurant. Friends visiting from the West Coast who waited in line with me ...

Tortilla Espanola is a classic Spanish dish, often eaten as tapas. I lived in Spain from age 12 to 17, some formative years of my life. I remember tortilla espanola being one of those dishes that just ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many, if not most, foodstuffs in other countries take their name from their place of origin, such as practically any cheese from Europe (as do the ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to our very opinionated editors’ favorite things to eat, drink, and buy. I’ve got, not a hot take, but a room-temp take. Frittata, quiche, tortilla ...