torta
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Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Torta
- Food.image
- Torta Cenceña (Roda).jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.type
- Flatbread, cake, sandwich, or omelette
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- umbrella term
- Subclass of
- baked good
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Material used
- milk
- Image
- Tortas Oaxaquenas.jpg
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- different from
- tart
- topic's main category
- Category:Torta (flatbread)
- partially coincident with
- pie
- Commons category
- Torta (flatbread)
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cakes
- Latin America and Spain
- Philippines
- Europe
- Middle East and North Africa
- Flatbreads
- Spain
- Latin America
- Omelettes
- Philippines
- Spain and Latin America
- Pies
- Italy
- Brazil
- Malta
- South America
- Sandwiches
- Mexico
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.
Usually, it refers to: a cake or pie in most of Europe, most of Latin America, and southern Philippines; a flatbread in Spain; a type of sandwich in Mexico; a type of omelette in northern Tagalog-speaking areas of the Philippines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “torta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.