Tapas and food

Any Plaza Major. Head for the main square. Eat outdoors and order at random. Point to unknowns, or to someone else's plate, and take what comes.Tapas. Bite-size. Eat until full.

Oreilles: You may think you are ordering little pasta ear-shells, and in will come braised pig's ears. A little salty, but cartilagenous and tasty. Recipes: oreja de oro at recipes.caribseek.com/Curacao/salted-pigs-ears. See also fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=21214.

Here is another write-up on tapas and food -Rick Steves (excellent travel guides) at www.ricksteves.com/plan/destinations/spain/tapas0008. For an overview of the individualized portions of many things - appetizers that can become an entire meal - see www.arrakis.es/%7Ejols/tapas/indexin.

Here is a site that talks about beef showing up on menus now, but this was not always the case. See the huge menu of environmental, climate and other nature items in Spain, materwww.iberianature.com. Scroll down the right menu to the food in Spain section, and then to beef.

Restaurants with tablecloths: beware, unless you plan to pay restaurant prices.

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