Pa Amb Tomàquet

Outside the vast area of Spain where Catalan is the first language of most people (Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands), Catalans get no respect. Compared to the Greek speakers they outnumber, Catalans might as well be Basques, as far as the benighted rest of the world is concerned. And yet they are a vibrant and influential people with an original cuisine that goes back to medieval times and before (as compared to the insular, backward-looking Greeks, whose cuisine is almost enti