Tapas vs Charcuterie - What's the difference?
tapas | charcuterie |
Variety of Spanish small food items or snacks originally served with sherry.
* 1986 , , The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine :
Small food items generally.
(uncountable) The practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.
(uncountable) cured meat; meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.
(countable) A shop or part of a shop specialising in cured meat.
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As nouns the difference between tapas and charcuterie
is that tapas is variety of Spanish small food items or snacks originally served with sherry while charcuterie is the practice of cooking and preparing ready-to-eat meat products, especially pork.tapas
English
Noun
(-)- The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.
- Izakaya food is basically Japanese tapas.