How (Not) to Make a Proper Tortilla Española

What you leave out means as much as what you put in

Paul Thomas Zenki
One Table, One World
5 min readMay 10, 2021

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Eggs, onions, potatoes, and a ramekin of salt on a cutting board, on a kitchen counter in front of a bottle of olive oil
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There are three sides in a triangle. Four gospels in the New Testament. And five ingredients in a tortilla española.

Eggs (5), potatoes (3), onions (2), olive oil and salt. Nothing more, nothing less. Así se hace, so it is done.

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Paul Thomas Zenki
One Table, One World

Ghost writer, essayist, marketer, Zen Buddhist, academic refugee, living in Athens GA, blogging at A Quiet Normal Life: https://www.quietnormal.com/