Toast with Tomato Smear

Spanish cuisine, if nothing else, is deceptively simple. At times, it takes only a few of the right ingredients to expose its true complexity. Tomato bread is a great example. Equal parts bright, sweet, salty, and umami-forward. Rustic and accessible yet sophisticated on the tongue. Crispy, chewy, wet, then dry. Bread with tomato smear is, in many important ways, perfect. Texture, aroma, flavor, and mouthfeel, all in harmony.