Cold Tomato and Pepper Soup

Although this recipe ought really to have been included in the chapter on soups, it is also served as a tapa in some of the bars of Andalusia and Madrid, where they tend to produce more refined renditions. When I think of salmorejo, I recall a memorable lunch in the Santa Lucia olive oil factory in Baena in Córdoba province, where the Núnez de Prado brothers produce a delicious virgin olive oil. The lady of the house, who loves cooking, makes a salmorejo that is almost