Tortas
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Torta cenceña made in La Roda
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| Type | Flatbread, cake, sandwich, or omelette |
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| Place of origin | Spain, Mexico, Italy, Malta |
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Torta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtorta]) is a Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Serbian word with a wide array of culinary meanings.
It originated in different regional variants of flatbread, of which the torta de gazpacho and torta cenceña are still surviving in certain areas of Central Spain. Tortas are also mentioned in Leviticus 24:5-9, in the Spanish translation of the Bible. Presently, however, the word torta is also applied to different kinds of bread and pastry products according to the region.
Historically, the difference between torta and bread was its round and flat shape, as well as the absence of yeast in its preparation. The well-known word tortilla, used mainly in Mexico (not in Spain, though), means a "small torta", while tortada means "big torta". In most regions, a torta was traditionally considered an inferior form of bread, as the well known Spanish aphorism expresses:
In turn, in Mexico a variation says: A falta de pan, tortillas ("Where there is no bread, tortillas are fine").
Torta frita is a fried flatbread eaten in Uruguay and Argentina.
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