Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Torta Española
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
Tortilla Española is Spain’s National Dish. When it comes right down to it, a Tortilla Española is a simple potato omelet. This dish was first made in Spain after their discovery of both the Incas and the Aztecs. The Incas were already cultivating potatoes among other produce on their terraced gardens in the early 1500s and the word “tortilla” comes from the word “torta” which means cake and is the word the Spanish gave to the flat bread made from corn that they encountered upon meeting the Aztecs a little later in the 16