The Food of Pedro Almadóvar's Volver
"If there were an Oscar for "best use of food in a film," Pedro Almodóvar's "Volver" would surely win at the awards ceremony Sunday," says Beverly Levitt of the Boston Globe, in her feature on the culture of food in the movie. If you've seen Volver, Levitt includes recipes for dishes that appeared in the movie, both favorites from Almadóvar's childhood: tortilla espanola and pisto manchego.
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Tortilla española is quite common among spanish "tapas", and it is actually a very simple treat: you chop potatoes in small dice, you fry them as you would do for regular french fries, then you cover them up with beaten eggs & salt and let that rest for a while. After that you heat up a little olive oil in a pan, pour all that inside, and cook. That is 4 ingredients: potatoes, eggs, salt, olive oil!! Some people in Spain would add onion to that, but the recipe stays the same all around Spain. Pisto, though, can vary quite a bit across different regions. Spanish tapas leverage great taste with simplicity. For instance, the ultimate spanish delicacy, spanish pata negra ham is consumed as-is, just the jamon slices by themselves. Well, maybe just with a glass of wine or "manzanilla". :)
Jose at 7:13AM on 02/23/07