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With its garlic, olives and other heady flavors, the country's cuisine is invigorating America.
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"Tapas are an inexpensive way to taste a lot of food without having to commit to a 40-bite chewfest or some big main course that bores me to tears a third of the way through." -- Celebrity chef Mario Batali

Spanish cuisine, an explosion of sizzling, colorful innovative fare, is all the rage not only in its native country but in the United States, too.

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Daring preparations by a generation of innovative chefs have made the cuisine hot, chic and casual. "Spain has really arrived," says Anya von Bremzen, author of The New Spanish Table (Workman Publishing, $22.95). "People have lost interest in French cooking, Italian has become too commonplace and everyone loves Mediterranean.

Spanish cuisine is very simple, very minimalist and direct, but very striking and dramatic."

Among the hallmarks of Spanish cuisine are lots of smoky flavors. Olive oil, almo